Edited 20/9/05 to correct typos As Paul Flessner says in his letter http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2005/productinfo/letter.mspx Database Mirroring won't make it in the RTM (Release To Manufacturing) release for SQL 2005. It will be there for people to...

At a recent Technet presentation, someone came up to me and asked me if I could post my Fuzzy Logic sample package to my Blog. I confess I haven't got round to wrapping it all up, but now it looks like I'm off the hook as one has been supplied with the...

Edited 21st Sept 05 to include picture of herbarium sheet. In my article 'Business Intelligence (BI): The way it is without the blah blah' , I mention that I was aware of some exiting research using the SQL Server OLAP engine, the results of which...

New SQL Server 2005 Technical Overview blogcasts from the States Demo 1-1 Using Object Explorer http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0509/25037/SQL-01_Demo1.asx Demo 2-1 Using Queries and Scripts http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0509/25037/SQL-01_Demo2-1.asx...

Tony Rogerson of the UK SQL User group has asked me to advertise this event. I think it will be of general interest but also of interest to people migrating or thinking of migrating from Oracle. And remember you've still got three days to enter the Oracle...

The tag line for IT Forum is "3 days of learning one year of solutions" - I'm sure you can sell that to your boss. If you do the details are here http://www.mseventseurope.com/msitforum/05/pre/content/default.aspx

For a long time now Oracle enthusiasts have bashed SQL Server for not having Optimistic Concurrency Controls. They would demonstrate a SQL Server reader blocking a writer and possibly a writer blocking a reader. Thus, having appeared to demonstrate that...

Looks likes I've got to do a presentation on Service Broker for the SQL 2005 launch - so I've been doing some home work on the subject. The best primer I've found is http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsql90/html/sqlsvcbroker...

Its not really SQL Server, but this short 16min video comes from the guy who ultimately takes resposibility for SQL. Bill is asked a number of interesting questions that put his contimued relationship with Microsoft under the spotlight - like why does...