SQL Service Broker isn’t going anywhere.
All to often when I give a SQL Service Broker presentation, or when I’m talking to people about it they want to know what the odds are that SQL Service Broker will be removed from the platform like how Notification Services was ripped from the product after just one release. So here’s just some of […]
If you aren’t doing backups, you aren’t doing your job.
Apparently people still haven’t figured out that taking backups of SQL Server databases is actually a requirement of having a SQL Server database. There was a conversation recently on Twitter about yet another forum question where the OP talked about the crashed database that they had without any backups what so ever. Some people don’t […]
As a birthday present to me, Amazon has started shipping “Securing SQL Server”.
So I drug myself out of bed this morning to an email from Sean McGown (Blog | Blog | Twitter) saying that Amazon had just told him that they would be shipping my book. So I hopped over to the Amazon page for the book, and low and behold it is no longer listed as […]
My MCM Knowledge Exam Test Experience
As many of you know, I took the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) knowledge exam back in November, and received notice that I passed back in December. The MCM knowledge exam is the first of two tests that you have to pass in order to receive the MCM certification, after you take and pass the MCITP […]