Building Software is Like
I still remember hearing an executive in IT at Virginia Power start a sentence like this, and he went on...
2008-06-06
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Blog Posts
Heroes? Probably Not
One of the big themes this year for Microsoft (and I just saw it on the PASS Summit site) is...
2008-06-05
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Know Your Equipment
Today I ran to the co-location facility for FourDeuce and End to End Training, to upgrade our database server to...
2008-06-05
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A New Logo
For SQL Server, it's coming soon. Surprisingly, when I was up in Redmond, quite a few people were asking about...
2008-06-04
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Data Loss Mailing List and Database
The folks at attrition.org have been stalwarts in providing information to the security community for ages, it seems. I first...
2008-06-04
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Notes from the June 2008 oPASS Meeting
Our main presentation was on 'Unlocking the Power of SQL Compact' by Steve Lasker & Ginny Caughey. Went better than I expected...
2008-06-04
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Security by Obscurity?
Andy Warren points to a TechNet article about Security by Obscurity and wanted me to post some notes. Let's start...
2008-06-04
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Managing Money
First, the usual disclaimer: I'm not a financial professional, so take all of the following with a grain of salt...
2008-06-03
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Replication Error "field size too large"
Yesterday, I was fighting with an error I have never seen in the replication and not much info can be obtained via...
2008-06-03
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World Wild Telescope & Misc Microsoft Stuff
Just took a look at the World Wild Telescope and it looks interesting, perhaps just as importantly looks cool! Don't...
2008-06-03
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Blogs
Why Database AI Agents need Layers?
By Arun Sirpal
Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...
Un-Migrating From the Cloud: T-SQL Tuesday #199
By Steve Jones
This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...
T-SQL Tuesday #199: Back to the on-prem
It’s the second tuesday of the month, which means T-SQL Tuesday time! This month’s...
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Secure Communications
As of June 2026, what is the best version of TLS to use with SQL Server?
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