The DBA Routine Posted on SSC

This was fun to write, though it's hard to boil everything down to 10 big steps. I thnk as an...

Another use of OpenRowSet()

From time to time, I need to dump out the result from a SP, such as sp_lock or sp_who.

Traditionally,...

MS, kill Begin/End!

It's funny - sorta - how you become used to the quirks of the tools you. I try not to rant too...

Why Don't People Go to Free Training?

I was having this discussion recently with Shawn Weisfeld, President of ONETUG and it's definitely a frustrating topic. As a...

Community Search vs Brute Force Algorithms

I was reading an interview with Jimmy Wales (the Wikipedia guy) in Selling Power magazine (I have ecletic reading preferences...

Google CIO and IT Strategy

CIO Magazine has a interesting article about Douglas Merrill, the CIO of Google. One of the things he dicusses in...

Passed 70-431

After putting it off for six months, I finally took - and passed - 70-431 yesterday. I know, I'm probably one of...

Honeypots in the Database

As a follow up to my post about Cesar Cerrudo's new whitepaper, earlier this month David Litchfield talked about putting...

Whitepaper on Malware to Attack Databases

Cesar Cerrudo of Argeniss Information Security has put out a new whitepaper (.pdf format), Data0: Next generation malware for stealing...

Buying a New Cell Phone

For the page 10 months or so I've been using a Samsung Blackjack, before that I used various Blackberries for...