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...

Excellent post on encryption

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

Data Dude

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

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...

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...

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...

SysInternals now on Microsoft TechNet

It wasn't too long ago that Mark Russinovich announced he was becoming a Microsoft employee (new link as his old...

NGSSoftware compares Oracle and SQL Server security

I first saw this at SQL Server MVP Jasper Smith's blog post Which database is more secure? Oracle vs. Microsoft:

     NGSSoftware...