Just a quick post to say that all our blogs and the SQLskills.com website is moving to a new software backend this coming Wednesday through Friday. All the URLs and links will remain the same after the move, but there may be some short periods during that time that the blogs won't be available. No need to shoot me email if you see this (as some of you do when DasBlog or ASP.NET misbehaves – thanks!). Hopefully things will be a bit more stable after the move.
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