Microsoft Network Monitor 3.0 Released

If you aren't familiar with Network Monitor, it's a packet sniffer that's a Windows component on the server builds (Control...

ApexSQL SQL Server VIP/MVP Offer

ApexSQL has an offer to anyone who is a SQL Server MVP or VIP for a gratuity of their ApexSQL...

Measuring pi by throwing frozen hot dogs?

I saw this today on my Google front page under the How To section:

How to Calculate Pi by Throwing Frozen...

SSMS and scripting

I've heard a lot of complaints about SQL Server Management Studio concerning slowness and some of the things, like scripting...

Default schema

Sadly, I haven't had much experience yet with SQL Server 2005 except for Reporting Services and SSIS. The majority of...

SysInternals now on Microsoft TechNet

It wasn't too long ago that Mark Russinovich announced he was becoming a Microsoft employee (new link as his old...

NGSSoftware compares Oracle and SQL Server security

I first saw this at SQL Server MVP Jasper Smith's blog post Which database is more secure? Oracle vs. Microsoft:

     NGSSoftware...

SSC bought out by Red Gate... Now what?

One of the highlights of my weekday mornings is reading the editorial by
Steve Jones of SQLServerCentral.com.  However, this past...

Teaching Children to Program

One of the blogs I follow is Andrew Coates' blog over at MSDN. He has posted about starting to help...

Back from PASS

While at PASS, I created a thread in the forums: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/shwmessage.aspx?forumid=61&messageid=322277 .  It was an incredible week.  I look forward to...