Strategic vs Tactical Time

As an owner of a small business one of the constant struggles is time management, and more importantly, finding time...

Turning Off Logging

I'm sure that most of you know that you cannot turn off logging in SQL Server. You can minimize the...

Google Knol As Community Competitor?

I ran across this in the Google bloghttp://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html announcing a new beta feature called Knol that allows an author to...

Lists of Tools

I ran across this list of interesting tools by Scott Hanselman and there is some good stuff to look at...

12000!

A short congratulations to myself. I was answering posts last night after tech editing another chapter of the book I'm...

Finding the relationship of a filegroup and a partition

The other day, I was trying to find out which partition is on which filegroup for a a partitioned table....

Driving Debate

I write a daily editorial, which is one of the reasons that I don't post here as often as I'd...

Managing Funds for User Groups

This question seems to come up a lot and it's worth discussing. Few user groups are incorporated, fewer still are...

Disappearance

Wow, it's been a long time since I posted here. I actually had to search for my name to find...

Podcasting

A new video setup is on the way!!!!

Actually I'll do a couple podcasts on podcasting over the holidays here since...