Do You Support the Ancient Ones?

Do You Support the Ancient Ones?
Are you still supporting SQL Server 2000? How about 7.0 or 6.5?

Officially, Microsoft support has...

Notes on the 2009 Orlando Code Camp

This was an interesting year to watch the local Code Camp. Shawn Weisfeld organized it the previous two years, but...

SQLBits a Smashing Success

SQLBits IV was held in Manchester, England, Saturday March 28th, 2009, and was attended by more than 360 attendees. This...

Tweet Your Job Away

A great example of how to “Tweet” poorly. This guy got fired before he started work.
Twitter is a series...

Android v Windows Mobile

I’ve had a number of cell phones in my life, probably more than many people. Typically I’ve just grabbed a...

Featured Blog - Brian Kelley

My friend Brian writes Databases, Infrastructure, and Security and like me, he writes about an eclectic mix that goes beyond...

Gone Dark

This afternoon was quite interesting around the office.  A strong thunderstorm moved through the area, a common occurrence in Texas...

How to Deal with the Difficult Forum User

It has happened to us all at one time or another.  We are trying to help someone on an online...

Launch Replication Monitor Without SSMS

I manage a lot of replication publications\subscriptions and when I get a latency or agent failure alert it always bugs...

Minimalist Design

I'm been in tactical mode lately, building an advertising management system for one of our projects. Actually it's v2, the...