I haven't read it yet, but the September issue of SQL Server Magazine has an article: "Buyer's Guide: Database Encryption Solutions." You might want to get a copy and...

You want to be careful with tools like this, you can run afoul of your network security people, managers, or policy. At my current place of employ, for example,...

If you're looking at starting a blog at work, you might want to consider a wiki in addition to or instead of. The software that powers Wikipedia, MediaWiki, is...

One source for info on starting a blog is the good WordPress tutorial on Webmonkey: http://www.webmonkey.com/tutorial/Get_Started_With_Wordpress. You don't have to have a *nix hosting service to run their software,...

Deeper in replies to Schneier's post, it would appear that the numbers are thoroughly discredited. Apparently this "study" was released the same day that Dell announced some new security...

Those are pretty amazing numbers. I've never lost a laptop, though I did once leave my backpack with my laptop in it at the airport. Fortunately I realized...

Brad M. McGehee (9/2/2008)

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Please take the time to review the entries and vote. Each of these DBAs do a great job, and making the decision may be difficult. I know...

Ummm.... not to pick nits, but "Why a peer things X should win" 😀

Web page by a former poof-reader?

A friend of mine knew a tech who had one of those Motorola mega two-way pagers. When he got home on Friday, he threw it in the freezer. ...

That's pretty cool, it would be interesting to learn more about the underlying system and how it handles transactions and recovery. I know I wouldn't be too keen on...

Good article, Andy. Myself, I'm very explicit in telling my developers that putting spaces in database or object names on any of my SQL Servers may be punishable by...

Knut Boehnert (8/27/2008)

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One thing I would change almost always now that I've learned a bit is to create straight from the start a second filegroup. Call it Data. Then set...

"All I want is an honest week's pay for an honest day's work." --Steve Martin

Peter, you mention looking yourself in the mirror. There's far too many people who are...

jchen (8/25/2008)

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I am a new in SQL Server DBA field, sometimes I posted some questions but I couldn't get feedback or I didn't go right place to check feedback. How...

Heh. It just occurred to me that I could install the hotfix on MY computer and see if it fixed the problem.

And it did.

I guess I'll apply a liberal...