Detecting SQL Server 2005 Properly

There is a new post in the SQL Server Express blog which indicates the
right way to detect SQL Server 2005:...

Haidong Ji blogs on a tip for learning Perl

Haidong Ji, co-author of Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, blogged on Learning Perl using the Perl Debugger. Haidong posts...

Interview with Craig Mundie on Channel 9

Channel 9 has posted a 25 minute interview with Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer for Microsoft. You can...

New SQL Server 2005 Books Online download available

As reported in several other places... there is a new Books Online (July 2006) for SQL Server 2005. You can...

Before you submit that incident to Microsoft...

Check out this post:

Things to consider before submitting an incident to Microsoft

Getting the information together before you make that phone...

Presenting at Columbia, SC DotNet User Group

I'll be presenting at the DotNet Columbia SC User Group on August 8th.
My presentation is tentatively titled, "Something old, something...

The Plumbing Behind MSDN 2

There is a very interesting article about how MSDN 2 utilizes SQL
Server 2005 technologies, specifically Service Broker and CLR
integration. The...

Free Data Models

I saw this on a Channel 9 forum thread:

Library of Free Data Models

There are quite a few starter data models...

Get a Better Understanding of How Queries Execute

I was catching up on my blog reading (unfortunately, in some cases I'm
a month behind) and came across a link...

New KB Article on SQL Server 2005 File Growth Bug

There is are two new KB articles on how the file growth value can become abnormally large. You can find...