I had a chance to attend a talk by Senior SQL Server PM about SQL Server 2008, and following were some of the key takeaways: The key tenants in SQL Server 2008 are: Trusted - provide mechanisms to secure data (such as database encryption), ensure...

While surfing the web (as you do) I came across the following new site (at least I never visited it before). It is: http://www.sqlcommunity.com Seems to have some good material on it, so the next time you are looking for something regarding SQL...

Yesterday evening I attended the Sydney SQL Server SIG and at this meeting we had a special guest speaker from the USA - Mr Stephen Few. He presented about business intelligence from a data visualisation perspective. He talked about how BI solutions can...

The latest cumulative update for SQL Server 2005 post SP2 is: KB 939537 - Cumulative update package 3 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939537/en-us And for a regularly updated list of all the fixes for SQL Server...