Vacation... and the need for it

I have been on vacation the last week, which meant I spent the previous three weeks at work preparing to...

Midlands PASS Chapter - August 2, 2007

"Database Professional Toolkit" with Brian and Jeremy
Midlands PASS Chapter - August 2, 2007 Meeting
Sponsored by Red Gate Software

The Midlands PASS Chapter...

ApexSQL's Industry Experts program

If you're a Microsoft MVP, ApexSQL has brought back their industry experts program. You can find out more about it...

A Graphical View of the Physical Allocation of a Database

First saw information about a tool called SQL Internals Viewer in a blog post here at Kalen Delaney's blog. The...

New version of SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer available

If you haven't seen the announcement, a new version of the SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer is available for...

The meaning of Database Administrator

In two blogs I follow, Andy Leonard's blog on SQLBlogs.com and Sheeri Kritzer's The MySQL She-BA, the question of what...

New MySQL Entry Level Certification

Last week I received an email indicating that MySQL had made available an entry level certification, the Certified MySQL Associate....

Reminder: Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting Tomorrow Night

What: Midlands PASS Chapter July Meeting
Where: Training Concepts (250 Berryhill Road, Suite 502, Columbia, SC)
When: 6:15-8:00 PM

Speaker: SQL Server MVP...

DDL Triggers and CREATE_LOGIN/ALTER_LOGIN

I've been doing a lot with DDL triggers in the last week or so and pulling out the relevant information...

Latest Service Packs and Books Online

I was reading a new post at SQL Server Magazine titled The More Things Change(full version available to registered users...