Google CIO and IT Strategy
CIO Magazine has a interesting article about Douglas Merrill, the CIO of Google. One of the things he dicusses in...
2007-11-26
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Blog Posts
Passed 70-431
After putting it off for six months, I finally took - and passed - 70-431 yesterday. I know, I'm probably one of...
2007-11-25
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Honeypots in the Database
As a follow up to my post about Cesar Cerrudo's new whitepaper, earlier this month David Litchfield talked about putting...
2007-11-23
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Whitepaper on Malware to Attack Databases
Cesar Cerrudo of Argeniss Information Security has put out a new whitepaper (.pdf format), Data0: Next generation malware for stealing...
2007-11-23
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Buying a New Cell Phone
For the page 10 months or so I've been using a Samsung Blackjack, before that I used various Blackberries for...
2007-11-21
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Distributed Transaction Issue Msg 7391
I solved an "interesting" issue today. It is about distributed transaction. When I set up transactional replication with immediate updating...
2007-11-21
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Logging Server Reboots - What the Heck MS?
Maybe someone at MS can explain this; they have that nice dialog that comes up after a reboot where you...
2007-11-21
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SQLSaturday Article Posted on SSC
I wrote up some more notes (in addition to what's available here on the blog) to try to raise the...
2007-11-21
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Confused?
I recently wrote an article on owners vs schemas for SQLTeam thinking that I had this all figured out. So...
2007-11-20
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SQLSaturday #2 aka SQLSaturday Tampa 2007
I had dinner with Wes Dumey and Pam Shaw from Tampa last night to share some lessons learned and hear...
2007-11-20
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Blogs
Microsoft announces new cybersecurity AI multi-model
By Brian Kelley
Yesterday, July 27, 2026, Microsoft announced a new cybersecurity effort called Project Perception. Included...
Getting the SQL Server MCP Server Running
By Steve Jones
If you’ve wanted a SQL Server MCP server for your databases, it’s available. The...
Introducing azsql-migration-test: Test and Validate Azure SQL Database Migrations
Introducing azsql-migration-test, a small open-source CLI that validates your Azure SQL Database migrations against...
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