Wow, there's a whole bunch of stuff oozing out of Pandora's box in here!

Let's see if I can summarize some wrap up points real...

Having been a Tablet PC user for a couple years now, I can't under estimate the screen hygeine problem... but Surface doesn't require penning or touch really. It seems that...

I'm surprised to find so many Luddites in the database community, but I guess that shouldn't be a surprise to me. DBAs are the Department of Redundancy Department after all....

Oops, I forgot to wish Kendall a happy birthday. Sorry, Kendall! Merry birthday, kiddo!!

As a random aside, we're even letting Aggies in @...

Well, for those of you who do claim to be members of The One True [Software] Religion, the High Priests of Redmond are always looking for a few good men...

Steve, for the sake of argument, I'll agree that "No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy." However, most IT shops do NOT have a valid DR plan to start with....

As one of those who "lives his life in BI" (to use Steve's words), I wish I was there! I'm learning a lot about the storage engine, SQLOS and Service Broker locked away...

Well, the .NET guys are too busy working to talk smack. And if they Java guys were offended by the truth, they’re too busy hiding to talk...

It’s interesting that you posit that Integration Services might the most popular part of SQL Server 2005. It reminds me that I haven’t blogged my favorite quote...

Amen on the data security and data responsibility measures that we'd all like to see companies implement!

I'm not sure that we could rely on...

I haven't been to visit the Google campus yet, but the dotcom startup that I was a teensy part of from 2000 to 2005 was a Yahoo! partner and I...

Being an alleged devil, let me play advocate...

Would all of the WGA opponents be willing to pay a higher price for a WGA-free version...

What are you waiting for on the skydiving, Steve? The kids getting older won't change anything (except assuage your own guilt over perceived risk-taking)! I've got three younglings of my...

Like a lot of other good intentions that we pave our current American road with, I suspect that this one would turn out just like the rest. Piling...

Let's have a big "What he said!" for the people who understand that this design looks reasonable for a data warehouse structure (Chris, Ben et alia). Any good OLAP...