My Book is Out!

How to Cheat at Securing SQL Server 2005

I recently had the opportunity to contribute a couple of chapters to this...

What's In a PodCast - Part 1

Well, lots of mistakes. Here's a good example of one: Friday Oct 5 mistake.

I decided to go the budget route...

Midlands PASS October Meeting

Taya Blanchard to speak on A
Practical Guide to Making Sense of Your SQL Server Application
Performance
Midlands PASS Chapter - October...

Estimates - Part 1

I saw a very interesting post about estimating software from Steve McConnell, of Code Complete fame. He compared his estimate...

Paperwork Day

Doing payments for articles, expenses, and a few articles. This is definitely a paperwork day. As much as I like...

Clustered Indexes

I work almost exclusively with third party applications. I don't get to do a lot of tuning except for reports...

The Quickest Podcast in the Business

I almost forgot to record the podcast for tomorrow's editorial. In case you're a glutton for punishment, it's here. I'd...

I Don't Have a Black Eye

Though it kind of looks like that. Here's the first video podcast.

Halo 3

Actually it's probably the 20th, but it's close...

Monitoring and Alerting

I responded in an interesting thread this morning where someone was looking for advice on what to monitor on their...

Points or Posts

It's an interesting question that we had come up, and honestly I'm not completely sure what I want. I'll describe...