How do you make a Wiki work?

Following up on my post about Wikipedia, I read an article in Eweek, 25 Tips for a Better Wiki Deployment...

Contributing to Wikipedia

Recently I posted about an interview with Jimmy Wales and only a couple days after that I ran across What...

Tribute to Honor Jim Gray

Saw this on the Association for Computer Machinery SIGMOD announcements.

Tribute to Honor Jim Gray

It is scheduled for May 31, 2008...

How Will Processor Licensing Evolve?

Information week had an interesting article that talks about the different methods of licensing used, ranging from the what we're...

Powerpoint from a Blackberry

Ran across the Impactica Showmate, a $249 item (gadget?) that allows you to present Powerpoint presentations wirelessly via Bluetooth directly...

Event and Session Evaluation Results for SQLSaturday Orlando

SQLSaturday is ultimately about attendees, and they finally speak! The scores look very good and the comments should be useful...

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...