And Bad Writing

I haven't had time to research the extent, but someone reported plagiarism and the author admitted the code, while "from...

Good Writing

I left at lunch to hit the gym and then meet a friend. Afterwards I stopped by Starbucks to do...

Responsibility

This is very interesting.

I've often thought that blogs were a great source of information, but it is more unvetted than...

Upgrading your databases link

I got the link from Kirk about the couse: http://www.maxtrain.com/classes/classInfo.aspx?id=SQLADV .

Upgrading your databases to SQL Server 2005 class

I attended a two day class this week that was fantastic.  It was taught by the author of the course material,...

Teaching 3rd Graders binary numbers?!?

This is just neat. I saw the link in a post on Tess Ferrandez's blog.
She's an escalation engineer with Microsoft...

Forums for Atadore's PromptSQL

Atadore has opened up forums for support and feature requests of its
PromptSQL tool. You can find them on the PromptSQL...

The Greatest Trick

In reading Gianpaolo Carraro's blog I came across this entry: The architect greatest trick?!

In it he's talking about having seen...

Pro SSIS is Here!

My box of books arrived today!  For me, a first-time author (actually co-author), this is very surreal. I remember it was...

Slightly Connected

Sometimes those connection problems come in the most interesting ways.

I took a few minutes over lunch today to try...