Bad weather and Power Outage

After years of mild weather in the St. Louis area, this is the second time we have been hit hard...

Excellent post on encryption

Laurentiu Cristofor has an excellent blog post, Who needs encryption?, which presents some point blank facts about encryption and the...

Professional Association of SQL Server - Midlands Chapter First Meeting

If you are in South Carolina or a nearby location (Charlotte, Augusta, etc.) and are interested in participating in an...

TechEd 2007 tracks announced

The Microsoft TechEd tracks have been released early here:

Sneak Peak at the 2007 Tracks

For those who are interested in attending...

Data Dude

I went to an abbreviated version of the Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals launch this morning. The...

ApexSQL SQL Server VIP/MVP Offer

ApexSQL has an offer to anyone who is a SQL Server MVP or VIP for a gratuity of their ApexSQL...

Measuring pi by throwing frozen hot dogs?

I saw this today on my Google front page under the How To section:

How to Calculate Pi by Throwing Frozen...

Microsoft Network Monitor 3.0 Released

If you aren't familiar with Network Monitor, it's a packet sniffer that's a Windows component on the server builds (Control...

SSMS and scripting

I've heard a lot of complaints about SQL Server Management Studio concerning slowness and some of the things, like scripting...

Default schema

Sadly, I haven't had much experience yet with SQL Server 2005 except for Reporting Services and SSIS. The majority of...