Sorry, Mikko, the box was already open

In a blog post F-Secure's Chief Research Officer, Mikko Hypponen (blog | twitter), indicated that with the US participating in cyberattacks...

Parallel Processing For Pros

Hi,

Yesterday I delivered a session on Parallel Processing at the Israeli User Group.
I had a great time and hope you...

Review of “Start Here! Learn Microsoft Visual C# 2010?

Disclaimer: I wrote this review as a participant to O’Reilly Blogger Review Program.
If you’ve never seen a programming code in...

June 2012 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist

It’s the first Monday of the month, have you checked your servers out?  Do you know that everything with your...

Back to Pensacola and SQL Saturday #132

This will be my fourth trip to Pensacola for SQL Saturday #132. I’ve enjoyed going every time and I usually...

Microsoft Master Data Services in SQL Server 2012

Microsoft SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS) is a Master Data Management (MDM) product from Microsoft.  Master Data Services is...

Testing backups – Is RESTORE DATABASE…VERIFYONLY good enough?

Is it just me, or does there seem to be a lot of discussion these days about testing backups and...

How to Drop One Plan from Cache

While presenting this weekend at SQL Saturday #117 in Columbus, OH (great event, if you missed it, you missed it),...

Tips to avoid deadlocks?

A database server should be able to service requests from a large number of concurrent users. When a database server...

Database In Recovery

What do we do? Have you ever run into a database that is in the “In Recovery” state? If that has happened, have the bosses and/or endusers come to...