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Another fantastic book for your reading pleasure this month. “Customizing The Microsoft .NET Framework Common Language Runtime” by Steven Pratschner. In-depth coverage of .NET 2.0 hosting API.

They always get a bit of a jump on us WRT “current events” because of the timezone difference, especially if you live in the land

I really like the feature known as “All Permissions Grantable” in which any permission can be managed using the GRANT verb, because there are no

Just was looking through my reported problems last night to see what the resolutions might be. Looks like the two having to do with managed

Today I embark on a new venture, a new part of my career. I’m joining SQLskills as Director of Developer Skills. I’ve worked with SQL

Sometime between when I left for Europe and when I started reading email that wasn’t addressed “question from student” (yes, I do answer all those), my

Wow. I was going through old blog entries looking for some unique insight (TM) I had, once upon a time, about SQL Server 2005 error

I just finished up our last gig for SQL Server 2005 Ascend last week in Paris (OK… in Les Ulis). It was my first class on

While at TechEd, I purchased the first computer book I’ve actually had to shell out hard cash for in quite a while, The Rational Guide

I meant to blog from TechEd but with all the activity, I never got the time. The talk on when to use T-SQL and when to

For a long time I’ve been griping that SSMS projects (SQL Server Script projects) use absolute pathnames rather than relative paths. I didn’t think it

I’ve heard rumblings on various newsgroups that our book “A First Look at SQL Server 2005 for Developers” is getting a little long in the

Saw another Kent post on TechEd 2005. I’ll be there too (mixed marketing slogan message with SQLPass). I’m doing a talk on “SQLCLR vs. T-SQL:

Catching up on blog-reading. Kent Tegels wondered if I was speaking at SQLPass Community Summit. Yep, I am. I’m doing a 2-day pre-con on (what

Hi all. Not much blogging out of me lately. I’ve been on vacation and, in between, I’ve been teaching SQL Server 2005 at Microsoft Sydney

I’m back home again after being on the road three weeks out of the last four. Internet access was good, except for one hotel. I

I’ve been using Visual Studio 2005 for over a year, since before the alpha version came out. Recently, I’ve had occasion to use VS 2003

One of the most amazing things that happened at the class last week was Wednesday night, when Dan Sullivan and the SQL Server Service Broker

I’m probably about the  hundredth person to notice this and blog about it, but I’m not usually at home when these things happen. Thought I’d

I returned home from Europe late Saturday night. With catching up on my sleep, email, questions, Thanksgiving (which Mary and I celebrated on Sunday this

This is actually posted a few days after I wrote it. I haven’t done the “internet on the plane” service although I think it exists.

SQLNS is an acronym for SQL Server Notification Services. Originally introduced as a “free addition” to SQL Server 2000, it is an integrated part of

[Comment heard from an XML afficianado] A: Uh…Yes, lots of them… User-schema separation always leads to the recollection that “user-schema separation is the way things

I seem to have lost the gift, if I ever had it, for what some of my old collegues would call (with a smile on

Got back from Win-Dev last night…and immediately crashed. It was a great show, a little exhausting because some of the folks that I’d lined up

Made it to this conference, came a day early just in case (see I’m at SQLPass…not). No hurricanes at this one, but fairly nasty cold

Just finished watching Ichiro break the single season hit record on TV. I’m a Seattle Mariner fan from way back when, and a big Ichiro

My apologies to anyone who showed up at SQLPass this morning for the pre-pre-conference talks, which was supposed to include a day of SQL Server

After a summer of being a homebody, fall and winter will be *lots* of traveling. I’ll be doing the day of SQL Server 2005 for

Thinking ahead to the SQLPass conference and also back a few weeks to the Ascend Airlift. Almost forgot that at the airlift I met Angel

After getting a laptop with enough power this summer, I’d taken a week or so to familiarize myself with Virtual PC. Using it is a

Because of SQL Server 2005’s support of XQuery, a lot of folks have been asking about good XQuery-specific books. I’ve found two excellent books, each

I’m at the Ascend program launch this week; it’s being launched as part of a larger event. Yes, I finally got to meet Roger Doherty.

I was writing slides and labs last week. I read Dare’s discussion of “The Sex and Cash theory“ about doing what you think is cool

I started my career as a maintanance programmer, and spent a lot of time searching out and fixing bugs, in existing code and also introduced by

sqlaccess.dll is the in-database .NET data provider, System.Data.SqlServer. If you do any data access in .NET stored procedures, UDFs, triggers, UDTs, and UDAggregates, you are

SQL Server 2005 beta 2 is now available for MSDN subscribers on the MSDN website. Although it’s not yet listed in the “what’s hot” section,

Since you’ve probably seen this on every other blog in the world already, I’m not going to post that the language that was known as

I collegue of mine is studying SQL Server Analysis Services and asks about APIs for it. I have the unique (wierd?) perspective of having come

The first blog entry got me thinking. For someone supposedly cloistered writing a book, I have been doing some heavy traveling. For the last year,

I’ve finally decided to take the plunge and start this up. I’ve been in hiding for the last year and three quarters or so, working