Speaking at SQLSaturday #7 in Birmingham on May 30, 2009
I'm flying up Friday afternoon to participate in SQLSaturday #7 which is being led by John Baldwin and his team...
2009-05-26
1,350 reads
Blog Posts
The SQLServerCentral Outage
A lot of people have asked what happened over the Memorial Day weekend as SQLServerCentral was down. All I can...
2009-05-26
1,585 reads
Tracking Deprecated Features
This week I'm in Brno, Czech Republic leading an App Compat seminar for Microsoft clients here, and one of the...
2009-05-26
480 reads
Featured Blogger: Wes Dumey
Wes is a friend acquiring via networking and community involvement - another success story! He's based in Tampa and has been...
2009-05-25
561 reads
Looking for the Next RSS Reader
I've been using Snarfer for a while now, preferring an offline reader so that I use a few spare moments...
2009-05-25
739 reads
Speaking Engagements for The Modern Resume
I’m giving my talk on The Modern Resume – Building Your Brand a few more times this year and I’ve got...
2009-05-25
992 reads
SQL Server Encryption - Protecting Files at Rest
You have a few options for protecting your SQL Server data at rest. So far I haven't seen anything thing...
2009-05-25
3,512 reads
Memorial Day
Today in the United States we celebrate Memorial Day, the day we remember American casualties of any military action. Though...
2009-05-24
558 reads
A Flood of Books
I'm on a few publishers' lists as someone that reviews books, works with SQL Server, and in general might help...
2009-05-22
758 reads
Hyper-V – A New Machine
I installed Hyper-V onto a new machine as a role for the base Windows 2008 server role. It required a...
2009-05-22
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Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Forums
How to change the FDLaunch Error log file location
The file FDLAUNCHERRORLOG gets created in the default <instance>\MSSQL\Log folder. So far, I've found...
what data type i should use for roversion col and can i use less than greater
can i use Rowversioncol ( in my database it's synonyme timestamp is used) to...
Radius Latitude Longitude
I have a table with latitude longitude in the format. 45.123456 , -111.123456 ,...
Question of the Day
A Fun Computer Quote
Which movie featured this quote?
"All programs have a desire to be useful."Happy April Fools! See possible answers