Why Participating in a Community is Important and Beneficial

Back in 2000 I began writing for swynk.com in hopes of learning more about SQL Server and beginning to make...

Getting Better at Time Management

 One of the things I took from my overall performance last year is I need to get better at time...

Tribute to Honor Jim Gray

Saw this on the Association for Computer Machinery SIGMOD announcements.

Tribute to Honor Jim Gray

It is scheduled for May 31, 2008...

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...

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...

Physical Fitness

Real life events continue to interfere with my regular posting. However, I would rather deal with them and neglect posting...

Veterans' Day

I'll post Part III of Becoming a DBA tomorrow (meaning there will be two posts). Veterans' Day is typically celebrated...

Resources: SQL Server 2005 Security

Work responsibilities took up my time on Thursday and Friday, so I never got around to posting. Here's the resources...

Tools: Apex SQL Log, Apex SQL Log API, Sample Corrupted Databases

Apex SQL has announced a new version of Apex SQL Log as well as an API for it.
Release Notes...

SQL Server: Showing permissions for a given database user

Building upon my post from last Tuesday, if you know all the roles for a given user, you'll probably want...