Risky Behavior

An interesting debate from one of my editorials on risk. Some great points raised by everyone, but I still think...

Professional Development Plans Article on SSC

This was fun to write. It's a subject I'm passionate about and that too few in our field seem to...

No More SSNS

We've dropped an acronym!

In my rounds of the blogs today, a number of people have pointed out that SQL Server...

Celko, SQL, and SQLSaturday

Big news here in Orlando is that Joe Celko will be presenting two sessions at SQLSaturday on Nov 10. Once...

Revisit What You Know - Published on SSC

The article went live earlier this week. Didn't quite accomplish what I had hoped I think, which was to point...

Katmai July 2008 CTP is Out

I'm downloading now, and you need some sort of inviation to do so, but it's available and ready for you...

Undocumented use of the Columns_Updated() function

Q I need an easy way to see if a delete transaction has fired a trigger. Do you have any...

Midlands PASS Chapter - August 2, 2007

"Database Professional Toolkit" with Brian and Jeremy
Midlands PASS Chapter - August 2, 2007 Meeting
Sponsored by Red Gate Software

The Midlands PASS Chapter...

User Groups Moved to New Domain

We've just moved all the PASS chapters that were hosted on ~.ssc.com domains over to ~.sqlgroups.com. This is part of...

ApexSQL's Industry Experts program

If you're a Microsoft MVP, ApexSQL has brought back their industry experts program. You can find out more about it...