This is a good article although it would help folks if the typo "bidding parameters" got fixed to "binding parameters" as that threw me at first.

Given how flexible the XML...

SQL 2005 is a HUGE improvement over SQL 2000. I particularly like the integrated environment that Management Studio provides and the CTE and OUTPUT keywords. SSIS did not...

I am reminded of the old adage:

If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

The more flexibility we have, the more agility we have, and...

Microsoft is a much larger world that most folks realize...

They already have what Steve is thinking about, it's called "Embedded XP", and then there's always Windows CE....

Excellent Article, would love to see a cursor/loop example too.

If you take your car in for repair, and the transmission's bad, you don't ask "Who made that (#*$)@ transmission?" -- When, in all probability your car's manufacturer didn't make the...