Gartner Developer Conference

It's been quite a week at the Gartner Application Development and Integration converence here in Nashville. I've never been to...

Mirrored Backups Posted on SSC

This was fun to run through, nice to see MS adding features even if in my view they didn't quite...

Tampa Code Camp 2007

Web site just went live for this year. Brian & I both presented sessions last year and we're planning to go...

June Midlands PASS Meeting Canceled

We are canceling the June Midlands PASS meeting because the speaker (me) is still under the weather. I'll post in...

Katmai Manageability

The database manages itself. Not totally, but close to it. It was an
analogy made by Dan Jones with cars. Auto...

Southern BBQ

Last night I went out with Tony Davis of Simple Talk and Alan White, a
longtime author for both here and...

SQL Server 2005 Security

It's a similar theme, off by default if it makes sense, minimize surface area.

Recommendations: for new installs, leave stuff off...

Beyond Relational

I missed this yesterday, but I saw it on the schedule again, and I knew
I had to make this one....

DBCC Internals

CHECKDB

- needs consistent view of the db. Needs to do this without locking. In
SQL Server 2000 log analysis is used....

Maintenance in SS2K5

Andrew Kelley from Solid Quality Learning did this one, which was good.
I was worried it would be about maintenance plans,...