Google Knol As Community Competitor?

I ran across this in the Google bloghttp://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html announcing a new beta feature called Knol that allows an author to...

Finding the relationship of a filegroup and a partition

The other day, I was trying to find out which partition is on which filegroup for a a partitioned table....

12000!

A short congratulations to myself. I was answering posts last night after tech editing another chapter of the book I'm...

Driving Debate

I write a daily editorial, which is one of the reasons that I don't post here as often as I'd...

Managing Funds for User Groups

This question seems to come up a lot and it's worth discussing. Few user groups are incorporated, fewer still are...

Podcasting

A new video setup is on the way!!!!

Actually I'll do a couple podcasts on podcasting over the holidays here since...

Disappearance

Wow, it's been a long time since I posted here. I actually had to search for my name to find...

How do you make a Wiki work?

Following up on my post about Wikipedia, I read an article in Eweek, 25 Tips for a Better Wiki Deployment...

Contributing to Wikipedia

Recently I posted about an interview with Jimmy Wales and only a couple days after that I ran across What...

Tribute to Honor Jim Gray

Saw this on the Association for Computer Machinery SIGMOD announcements.

Tribute to Honor Jim Gray

It is scheduled for May 31, 2008...