Event and Session Evaluation Results for SQLSaturday Orlando

SQLSaturday is ultimately about attendees, and they finally speak! The scores look very good and the comments should be useful...

The DBA Routine Posted on SSC

This was fun to write, though it's hard to boil everything down to 10 big steps. I thnk as an...

MS, kill Begin/End!

It's funny - sorta - how you become used to the quirks of the tools you. I try not to rant too...

Another use of OpenRowSet()

From time to time, I need to dump out the result from a SP, such as sp_lock or sp_who.

Traditionally,...

Why Don't People Go to Free Training?

I was having this discussion recently with Shawn Weisfeld, President of ONETUG and it's definitely a frustrating topic. As a...

Google CIO and IT Strategy

CIO Magazine has a interesting article about Douglas Merrill, the CIO of Google. One of the things he dicusses in...

Community Search vs Brute Force Algorithms

I was reading an interview with Jimmy Wales (the Wikipedia guy) in Selling Power magazine (I have ecletic reading preferences...

Passed 70-431

After putting it off for six months, I finally took - and passed - 70-431 yesterday. I know, I'm probably one of...

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...