Brief from David Litchfield about Administrator Logins to a Database Server

David Litchfield has put out a brief (as
he says it, "It's called a brief because there's enough meat to make...

MySQL 5.0 Released

Catching back up on things. MySQL 5.0 went "RTM" at the end of October.
Haven't had a lot of chances to...

New Perl Module for SQL Server released

For those who use Perl and access SQL Server, MVP Erland Sommarskog has
announced a new module which uses OLE DB...

I love wireless!!!

I took part of today off to attend the Denver Woodworking show north of
Denver. I left early because, well, I...

Named Instances and SS2K

I saw Alex's post on installing a named instance of SS2K5 and having
issues with SS2K. I wanted to note that...

Apologies and Testing

First, apologies to the Database Daily readers. I'll include one in
next week's issue as well, but the links didn't work...

Get MAXimum functionality

SQL 2005 provides a the new max specifier to be used with varbinary, varchar and nvarchar data types. You can...

Poll

If you haven't seen it, I started a poll in the editorial today. Check it out and give you answer:...

Day Zero

Today's the day!!!

SQL Server is being released as I type this and I'm online listening to the keynote from Steve...

Boycott Sony

In general I have been a Sony fan for most of my life, starting with the Walkmans they brought out...