Rangers to Masters

The new Certified Master program sounds suspiciously like the Microsoft Certified Architect program, which appears to have been revamped to...

Switching to Live Search

Steve Ballmer issued a challenge to MVPs a couple weeks ago, asking them to switch to Live Search this week...

Is the PASS Summit Too Big?

That's the question posed by Kalen Delaney in a write up on SQLMag.com. Is a SQL event of more than...

Microsoft Certified Master program – Is This The Answer to Certification Woes?

In the past few years, many people - myself included - have expressed a desire to see the quality of the Microsoft...

Grouping Sets

I have given a talk about new data types and T-SQL features to three local groups.  I am presenting it...

Database Adminstration Scalability

database administration scalabilityI am working on a project that is very successful in terms of its market
share, i.e. product users...

Does regulation make data any safer?

Working with healthcare organizations, I am constantly aware of the restrictions my staff and I must abide by according to HIPAA constraints. ...

Pumpkin Tossing

One more holiday post. Hope you all enjoyed Thanksgiving and are now enjoying either a quiet and well deserved day...

Happy Thanksgiving

I'm cheerfully taking the day off today (and tomorrow too!), and I'm writing this a week in advance as I...

Surface Demo

Second try. The video didn’t embed in the previous post. Nor this one. Here's the link
Microsoft Surface Demo

 
 
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