A Motivational Quote

Normally I don't post this sort of thing to my blog, trying to focus on more technical matters, but this...

GO More than Once?

SSC had a fairly routine article up recently about The GO Command the Semi Colon Terminator which I read, and...

Gartner Developer Conference

It's been quite a week at the Gartner Application Development and Integration converence here in Nashville. I've never been to...

Tampa Code Camp 2007

Web site just went live for this year. Brian & I both presented sessions last year and we're planning to go...

Mirrored Backups Posted on SSC

This was fun to run through, nice to see MS adding features even if in my view they didn't quite...

June Midlands PASS Meeting Canceled

We are canceling the June Midlands PASS meeting because the speaker (me) is still under the weather. I'll post in...

Katmai Manageability

The database manages itself. Not totally, but close to it. It was an
analogy made by Dan Jones with cars. Auto...

SQL Server 2005 Security

It's a similar theme, off by default if it makes sense, minimize surface area.

Recommendations: for new installs, leave stuff off...

Southern BBQ

Last night I went out with Tony Davis of Simple Talk and Alan White, a
longtime author for both here and...

DBCC Internals

CHECKDB

- needs consistent view of the db. Needs to do this without locking. In
SQL Server 2000 log analysis is used....