The Contest

I hate contests. I mean it's nice to get people involved and I start out with the best of intentions...

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...