The Long Tail
Another book I read recently, The Long Tail by Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine goes into detail talking about some of the changes...
2008-01-29
1,484 reads
Part II of Troubleshooting Memory Issues
The Windows Server Performance Team has published part 2 of troubleshooting memory issues.
This one covers excessive paging and memory...
2008-01-29
1,681 reads
First Heroes Happen Here (HHH) Comic
Microsoft and Seagate have partnered togethered to put together an IT Heroes comic (daily even). The first one is here:
...
2008-01-29
1,562 reads
Thoughts and Prayers
Ken Henderson passed away this past week. I found out about it from the MVP forums as well as from...
2008-01-29
1,450 reads
Ken Henderson has passed away
I know I'm not the first in the SQL Server community to post this, but Ken Henderson has passed away...
2008-01-29
1,918 reads
IT Transparency Posted on SSC
As I mentioned yesterday the article I wrote on IT Transparency is finally live today and now the wait to...
2008-01-29
1,304 reads
Agenda Posted for South Florida Code Camp
I'll be there doing a presentation on Transactional Replication, and my friend Chris Rock will be doing on on LINQ to...
2008-01-28
1,385 reads
Metasploit 3.1 is out
The new version of Metasploit is out. Included is a GUI interface. It's a complete re-write in Ruby (note to...
2008-01-28
1,518 reads
Vendor Neutral Database Certification
First saw this off of Planet MySQL:
New Vendor Neutral Database Certification (Dave's Stuff)
Following the link to the CIW site, there...
2008-01-28
2,869 reads
Citrix Presentation Server Becomes XenApp
Citrix is changing the name of its flagship product from Citrix Presentation Server (CPS) to XenApp. More from the blogosphere:
Citrix...
2008-01-28
1,999 reads
Blogs
Microsoft announces new cybersecurity AI multi-model
By Brian Kelley
Yesterday, July 27, 2026, Microsoft announced a new cybersecurity effort called Project Perception. Included...
Getting the SQL Server MCP Server Running
By Steve Jones
If you’ve wanted a SQL Server MCP server for your databases, it’s available. The...
Introducing azsql-migration-test: Test and Validate Azure SQL Database Migrations
Introducing azsql-migration-test, a small open-source CLI that validates your Azure SQL Database migrations against...
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Symmetric Key Encryption
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