Dell Laptops, D-Link routers and Cisco VPN

It's not directly SQL Server, but it does prevent me from working with SQL Server 🙂

So I'm in Virginia this...

User Groups, Geeks, and Puzzles

Last night we had one of bi-monthly meetings of oPASS (Orlando SQL Servers User Group) and we had a pretty...

Am I a Good Customer?

Maybe not. This is a great post and cartoon from David Reed (a friend) mentioning me.

We've had some good arguements...

Professional Development Plans Article on SSC

This was fun to write. It's a subject I'm passionate about and that too few in our field seem to...

Risky Behavior

An interesting debate from one of my editorials on risk. Some great points raised by everyone, but I still think...

No More SSNS

We've dropped an acronym!

In my rounds of the blogs today, a number of people have pointed out that SQL Server...

Celko, SQL, and SQLSaturday

Big news here in Orlando is that Joe Celko will be presenting two sessions at SQLSaturday on Nov 10. Once...

Revisit What You Know - Published on SSC

The article went live earlier this week. Didn't quite accomplish what I had hoped I think, which was to point...

Katmai July 2008 CTP is Out

I'm downloading now, and you need some sort of inviation to do so, but it's available and ready for you...

Undocumented use of the Columns_Updated() function

Q I need an easy way to see if a delete transaction has fired a trigger. Do you have any...