Vendor Neutral Database Certification

First saw this off of Planet MySQL:
 New Vendor Neutral Database Certification (Dave's Stuff)
Following the link to the CIW site, there...

Visiting the Charlotte SQL User Group on Feb 27th

I'll be visiting the Charlotte SQL Group on Feb 27th and I'll be doing one of my favorite presentations, Transactional...

Interesting Article about Measuring Performance in Software Test Mag

The Jan 2008 issue of Software Test & Performance Magazine  (available as free PDF download, you can also download back issues...

Journalism Ethics

I try to be pretty careful about what I write about, and now being an MVP and actually getting information...

Inexpensive Video Training from Internals Expert, Kalen Delaney

 I saw this in my blog reader today:
You can pre-order the Kalen Delaney SQL Server Internals Course - Lesson 1 DVD...

New Technique to Steal From Baggage

I first saw this on funsec security discussion list: 
  Dwarves zipped in
suitcases steal from Swedes

The gist of the story...

Post on Troubleshooting Memory Issues

Here's a post from the Windows Server Performance Team:
   An Overview of Troubleshooting Memory Issues

The post discusses the following issues:
Physical...

SQL Server 2008 RTM looks to be 3rd Quarter

On the Microsoft Data Platform Insider blog, there is a post indicating new roadmap dates:
  Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Roadmap...

System Sessions/Spids Rather than Spid < 50

Saw System Sessions posted on the PSS blog and it shows an example of information being written to the error...

Finding missing rows

One way to find the rows from one table that don't match another table is to use a sub-query. Here is...