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We had a blizzard on Tuesday in Denver. Apr 24 and we got nearly a foot of snow out at...

Keeping Skills Up-to-Date and Discoverability

One thing is always certain about information technology: there is always change. This past week I was pitching in on...

Book: Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard

I just finished the book Brute
Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard by Matt Curtin. It covers the work of...

Midlands PASS - April 5, 2007 Presentation posted

The presentation How to Be a Consultant has been posted to the Midlands PASS Chapter website. The presentation was given...

Post SP2 Fixes

    I saw Brian's post on Microsoft's post on post sp2-fixes. Say that 10 times quickly.

They do a good job explaining...

Not 4GB

Windows doesn't see 4GB. If you have a 32bit OS with 4GB of RAM, Windows can't see it all.

I saw...

The Final Word on SQL Server 2005 SP2?

Bob Ward posted on the PSS SQL Server Engineers blog a fairly long post on SP2 and the hotfixes thereafter:...

New Tool: ApexSQL Audit Viewer

ApexSQL has announced a new viewer tool for ApexSQL Audit. ApexSQL Audit does a lot of the dirty work of...

Thoughts from Never Eat Alone

Watching a Chefograpy on Giada De Laurentiis, I learned that she was considered very much an introvert and had a...

More information about SQL Server 2005 and SP2

SQL Server MVP Aaron Bertrand has posted an update (April 6, 2007) on the version numbers of post SP2 hotfixes....