A Pay Raise - WMV
There's a shortage of IT workers, which should lead to a pay raise for some people. Steve Jones takes a look at some recent news about IT salaries.
Full Text Search Follies
Are you considering upgrading from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005? Are you using Full-Text Search? One of the top SQL Server consultants in New York walks us through an interesting issue that you might want to consider before migrating your databases.
Step-by-Step Guide to Clustering Windows 2000 and SQL Server 2000
In this next article of the SQL Server in the Enterprise Series, we'll explore how to cluster Windows 2000 and SQL Server 2000 in a step-by-step manner. After this article, you should be able to cluster a SQL Server 2000 machine for failover availability in an Active/Active cluster.
Testing
We get tested in a variety of ways before we take a job, but what should be open for examination besides our technical skills? Answer this week's poll with your opinion.
Accessing Data from a Mobile Application
Data access is an important aspect of developing applications with the Microsoft® .NET Compact Framework for Windows Mobile® devices. By using the existing architecture to send and receive data between your mobile application and your application server, you can pass data with either DataSets, custom objects, or scalar values.
CS TechCast 7: Super Sized SQL
A weekly show from a few SQL Server MVPs that looks at a variety of technology items. This episode concentrates on SQL server.
Data Integration Solutions for Master Data Management
This white paper describes how application developers can leverage the functionality of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services to address the data integration challenges of Master Data Management applications.
Free and Cool
Two big events this week captured Steve Jones' attention. A little MySQL and Apple commentary to break up the week.
Partitioning - Part 4
Continuing on with his series on table partitioning, Andy Warren takes a look at some fo the advanced features available in SQL Server Enterprise Edition.
Blogs
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
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EightKB 2026
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The FinOps Lifecycle: From Budgeting to Reporting
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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