Microsoft .WMF Security Patch Releasing Today (out-of-cycle)

Microsoft has announced they will release a security hotfix at 2 PM PST for the WMF design flaw. More details...

Simple Script to Report Tables Sizes in a SQL2K Database

Last week we had an issue with a database growing unexpectedly. The
database in question supported an infrastructure type 3rd party
application...

Sample Chapter from Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services

Brian Knight posted a sample chapter for Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services
to his blog a few days ago. Last...

Philosophy on Soldiering

This is taken from the book About Face:The Odyssey of an American Warrior.
The author is Col. David "Hack" Hackworth, one...

Unpatched Microsoft Windows WMF Vulnerability

If you haven't heard by now, there is an unpatched exploit in how
Windows handles WMF files. Since this handling is...

SQL Server 2005 Administrator's Pocket Consultant available

Saw this at the book store this evening and picked it up.

SQL Server 2005 Administrator's Pocket Consultant

I'll spend the...

Crypt Packages for Perl

This is one of those "bang head here" issues. I was trying to install
Net::SSH::Perl, which basically drives SSH through Perl,...

Missing some folks

In a community the size of SQL Server Central, it's natural for people
to come and go, especially with contributions to...

Simple script to show what drives all databases are on

Had a need for this the other day. We just needed a quick dump of which
drives each database was using....

New SQL Server 2005 Books Online available

I saw this first on Karen Watterson's blog. Microsoft has released an update to SQL Server 2005's Books Online:

Download

A quick...