Carolina Code Camp - The Good and the Bad

This past Saturday I was able to participate in the Carolina Code Camp, help just outside Charlotte, NC. I was...

Weak Passwords Discovered in the 10,000 Disclosed Hotmail/Live.com/MSN leaked accounts

By now, hopefully everyone has heard of the security breach where accounts and passwords were found on a public site...

Rant: Cold Calls Are So Twentieth Century

I hate cold calls from vendors. Nothing gets my blood hotter than some vendor trying to call me when we...

Speaking Engagements This Week

I'll be doing three talks this week, starting tomorrow (Tuesday).
Tuesday, October 6th, Midlands PASS Chapter - Trigger Happy Database Security(PASS Summit...

Red Gate's SQL Data Generator

I'm reading SQL Server MVP John Magnabosco's new e-book, Protecting SQL Server Data, and he includes a database schema to...

Pitching in at SQL University

Jorge Segarra (@SQLChicken) has put together an idea to have on-line basic lessons on SQL Server called SQL University. The idea...

Security: Development Servers and Workstations

I've written about this before, but probably not as a specific subject or blog post. Trading some comments with a...

The old INNER JOIN syntax vs. the new INNER JOIN syntax

I was in a presentation last week where the presenter was talking about the ANSI/ISO SQL standards. For the most part the...

Midlands PASS Chapter October Meeting

Next Meeting - October 6, 2009

 Speaker - SQL Server MVP Brian Kelley

Trigger Happy Database Security
In this presentation we'll look at the use...

One Step Closer to Being a Technical Trainer

Cross posted from The Goal Keeping DBA:
This is about a long term goal that I’ve had which isn’t posted on...