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Technical Podcasts I Listen To
There are a few podcasts I tend to listen to as I have time. Since I work with a wide range of technologies, I've tried to group them together into a semblance of order. There are a few others I am evaluating, but since I haven't listened to a...

Posted 19 May 2008 11:20 by bkelley | with no comments

Command and Control of the Data Center
As I went walking last night, I listened to two podcasts from RunAs Radio of interviews of Michael Manos and Danielle & Nelson Ruest . Michael Manos is the senior director of Data Center Services at Microsoft and he was talking about some of the optimizations...

Posted 16 May 2008 16:44 by bkelley | with no comments

The Impact of Architecture/Design Choices
I try my best to get things right the first time. So often, correcting a mistake or bad choice is costly: more costly than it would have been to take the time to do it right the first time. However, as SQL Server MVP Andy Leonard points out, sometimes...

Posted 05 November 2007 15:40 by bkelley | 1 comment(s)

My Book is Out!
How to Cheat at Securing SQL Server 2005 I recently had the opportunity to contribute a couple of chapters to this new SQL Server security book from Syngress. The concept of the book is to provide a fundamental understanding for harried IT workers on...

Posted 04 October 2007 08:28 by bkelley | 3 comment(s)

Reminder: Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting Tomorrow Night
What: Midlands PASS Chapter July Meeting Where: Training Concepts (250 Berryhill Road, Suite 502, Columbia, SC) When: 6:15-8:00 PM Speaker: SQL Server MVP Wayne Snyder Topic: SQL Server Integration Services Website: http://www.truthsolutions.com/midlandspass...

Posted 11 July 2007 17:27 by bkelley | with no comments

DDL Triggers and CREATE_LOGIN/ALTER_LOGIN
I've been doing a lot with DDL triggers in the last week or so and pulling out the relevant information from the EVENTDATA() function. One of the things I noticed was that with CREATE_LOGIN and ALTER_LOGIN events, you cannot get back the T-SQL information...

Posted 09 July 2007 13:40 by bkelley | 1 comment(s)

Latest Service Packs and Books Online
I was reading a new post at SQL Server Magazine titled The More Things Change (full version available to registered users of sqlmag.com) by SQL Server MVP Brian Moran . It revealed an experience he recently had at Tech·Ed , where some folks who work with...

Posted 06 July 2007 16:46 by bkelley | with no comments

Midlands PASS Chapter July Meeting with SQL Server MVP Wayne Snyder
SQL Server MVP Wayne Snyder Speaks on SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Midlands PASS Chapter - July 12, 2007 Meeting Sponsored by AgFirst Farm Credit Bank The Midlands PASS Chapter is pleased to announce SQL Server MVP Wayne Snyder as our speaker...

Posted 06 July 2007 14:15 by bkelley | with no comments

June Midlands PASS Meeting Canceled
We are canceling the June Midlands PASS meeting because the speaker (me) is still under the weather. I'll post in a later message about the July meeting. Technorati Tags: SQL Server | Microsoft SQL Server | SQL Server 2000 | SQL Server 2005 | Professional...

Posted 07 June 2007 09:56 by bkelley | with no comments

Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting for June 6, 2007
Our next meeting will be on Thursday, June 7th, at 6:30 PM. Training Concepts will once again be our gracious host. I'll be speaking on the following: Title: Making the SQL Server Security Model Work for You SQL Server has a very robust security model...

Posted 29 May 2007 17:05 by bkelley | with no comments

Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting Tonight
Our next meeting will be on Thursday, May 3rd , at 6:30 PM. Training Concepts will once again be our gracious host. Our speaker will be Sean McLean of DBA24Hrs ( http://www.dba24hrs.net/ ) . His presentation is: DBLaunch/SQLNitro - Deployment/Management...

Posted 03 May 2007 10:21 by bkelley | with no comments

Microsoft CRM Security Internals
On the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog , Jay Grewal has posted information about the CRM Security Model Internals . CRM is an interesting application for DBAs because it does use row-level security. It's a bit more complex than most row-level security...

Posted 09 April 2007 18:12 by bkelley | with no comments

Whitepaper on ESX Server 3.0 and SAN-attached Storage
First saw this at Blade Watch . VMWare has released a white paper on using SANs with VMWare ESX Server 3.0. You can get the whitepaper here: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_san_design_deploy.pdf It's a hefty document at well over 200 pages. This will be...

Posted 20 March 2007 18:38 by bkelley | with no comments

SQL Server 2005 Security Best Practices Whitepaper Released
Saw this first here: SQL Server 2005 Security Best Practices . It's on the blog for Microsoft UK's SQL Server Premier Field Engineers . There's also some security-related webcast information on that blog post, so check it out! Microsoft has released a...

Posted 19 March 2007 15:17 by bkelley | with no comments

Windows Mobile Security
I'm working on a new article for SQL Server Central talking about physical security and SQL Server and I was going to include coverage outside of the data center, especially with products like Microsoft CRM 3.0 putting potentially sensitive data on a...

Posted 17 March 2007 20:33 by bkelley | with no comments

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