Maxx Dopp Maxx Dopp at TechEd: Dispatch 9–Final Day Maxx Dopp here. This is the last day of TechEd, and people are already leaving to fly home, and things... 08 June 2007 2 min read
Maxx Dopp Maxx Dopp at TechEd: Dispatch 8–TechEd is Winding Down (Slowly) Maxx Dopp here. TechEd was bustling today. A lot of vendors were giving away big prizes, and swag trolls were... 07 June 2007 2 min read
Maxx Dopp Maxx Dopp at TechEd: Dispatch 7 [imageattachment] Maxx Dopp here. TechEd has continued to pick up today. It seems odd to me that Monday and Wednesday... 06 June 2007 2 min read
Maxx Dopp Maxx Dopp at TechEd: Dispatch 6–TechEd is Picking Up Maxx Dopp here. This morning, activity at TechEd has picked up. We have been getting lots of questions about SQL... 06 June 2007 2 min read
Maxx Dopp Maxx at TechEd: Dispatch 5–What DBAs Are Asking Maxx Dopp here. Lunch has just been served, but no live band today. As I mentioned earlier, activity is much... 05 June 2007 4 min read
Maxx Dopp Maxx at TechEd: Dispatch 4–Day Two at TechEd Maxx Dopp here. Today is day two of TechEd. When compared to yesterday, it seems much slower paced. I don’t... 05 June 2007 2 min read
Maxx Dopp Maxx at TechEd: Dispatch 3–An Exhausting Day at TechEd Finally Ends Maxx Dopp here. Wow, today has been exhausting, and it is still only Monday, with four more days to go.... 05 June 2007 2 min read
Maxx Dopp Maxx Dopp at Tech Ed: Dispatch 1 Maxx Dopp here. TechEd 2007 began this morning in Orlando, Fl. The sun was shining and the weather perfect. But... 05 June 2007 2 min read
Phil Factor Why do we call them ‘Bugs’? I’ve read a great deal about the origin of the word ‘Bug’ in computer software. You’d have thought the argument... 01 June 2007 3 min read
Damon Armstrong Reclaim Microsoft Virtual PC Console that Displays Outside the Desktop I ran into a bit of a problem the other day with Microsoft Virtual PC staring outside of my viewable desktop... 30 May 2007 1 min read
Tony Davis Competition: The Great Advances in SQL Server The real advances in IT are seldom the ones that are heralded by great noise or media hype. So many... 30 May 2007 1 min read
András Belokosztolszki How to order creation SQL files in SQL Compare 6.0 Professional It is a good practice to store creation scripts for the database organized in a way that there is a... 21 May 2007 3 min read
Louis Davidson Sorting and case sensitive collations This is an addition to my book, on page 255, to the end of the section on collation (before the... 20 May 2007 5 min read
Damon Armstrong Displaying Debugging Info for SharePoint Errors in Your Browser SharePoint does a good job of hiding errors from users. Out of the box, unhandled errors in SharePoint result in... 17 May 2007 1 min read
Richard Mitchell Cut-n-paste your code nicely One thing that has annoyed me quite a lot lately is the way that cut-n-paste code from visual studio 2005... 17 May 2007 1 min read
András Belokosztolszki SQL Compare 6.0 beta – read and sync to and from SQL scripts We have just released the first public beta for SQL Compare 6.0. The full version of SQL Compare 6.0 is... 15 May 2007 2 min read
Phil Factor The ballad of the tuple relation I was peacefully pottering away at my workstation, contentedly spawning a daughter thread or something similar, when Robyn popped in. She’d... 10 May 2007 4 min read
Louis Davidson Using application locks to implement a critical section in T-SQL code This is being added to the addendum (located here) for my “Pro SQL Server 2005 Database Design and Optimization” book... 07 May 2007 8 min read
Helen Joyce SQL Backup 5.0 has been released SQL Backup 5.0 is a major upgrade including a complete redesign of the user interface. What’s new in 5.0? Complete... 01 May 2007 2 min read
James Moore Welcome to my world…SQL Backup 5 A year and a little bit ago, I sat down with Tom (head of development at Red Gate) to talk... 01 May 2007 4 min read
