September 13, 2002 at 10:24 am
just recently Internet.com decided to retire SQLWire under the guise of improving it. You can't find the articles, can't post new notices and ... well that's all SQLWire was so now I guess it is dead.
furthermore the links to sqlwire from google are no longer met with the appropriate page.
look at this link http://www.sqlwire.com/brief.asp?2225 from google to an article on "SQL Performance Audit"
the new domain now serves up this page http://www.databasejournal.com/brief.asp?2225 which seems identical to the home page and does not display the original link at all.
these links will all quickly drop off google now that they have removed the underlying page - my guess is there are thousands of them that pointed to sqlwire. they have invalidated every one of them eradicating years of sql posts cataloged on sqlwire.
don't bother to post "feedback" which they ask for. they don't respond but if you want to try anyway here is the contact info they post
fstroud@jupitermedia.com; sclark@jupitermedia.com
If you want sqlwire back then let them know. Otherwise let's hope the boyz at sqlservercentral pick up the slack.
Brian Lockwood
President
LockwoodTech Software
Brian Lockwood
President
ApexSQL - SQL Developer Essentials
September 13, 2002 at 11:14 am
We'll probably look at it. SQLWire was "good enough" so we didnt see a need to try put out a product that about the same info, if anything they ran a lot of our content. Any ideas/comments/suggestions about whether we should, and if so, any changes/improvements?
Andy
September 13, 2002 at 1:45 pm
I think it would be a good idea. Especially if those of us with our own sites can pull an XML doc with the latest articles. The SQLWire method was okay, but was rather limited unless you built the automated pull.
K. Brian Kelley
http://www.truthsolutions.com/
Author: Start to Finish Guide to SQL Server Performance Monitoring
http://www.netimpress.com/shop/product.asp?ProductID=NI-SQL1
K. Brian Kelley
@kbriankelley
September 13, 2002 at 2:22 pm
That makes sense. Might take us a little time to get that part up, the email and other functionality we already have. We could do so much if we didnt have jobs!
Andy
September 20, 2002 at 11:55 am
sqlwire partially brought back from the dead
Add News is back:
http://www.databasejournal.com/news/addnews/
but 3 years of News history still seems to have evaporated as it is still not found in searches and any sqlwire links picked up on search engines now just point to home page instead of the actual story.
Brian Lockwood
President
LockwoodTech Software
Brian Lockwood
President
ApexSQL - SQL Developer Essentials
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