Yip you heard right the Microsoft PDC event will be running this year on October 28th and 29th in Redmond. The Microsoft PDC event has been the epicenter of Microsoft’s biggest platform announcements since the first event in 1991. This year will be no...

The SQL Cape User Group Kick-Off event will be taking place this Thursday 15 July 2010 at the Microsoft Cape Town Offices. I will be presenting a little something on SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services (MDS), similar to what I presented up in Johannesburg...

I have over the past several years utilized the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit in its previous incarnations as my primary tool for getting an initial picture of a customers SQL deployments when starting any consolidation or risk assessment...

Yesterday Microsoft released the SQL Server 2008 SP2 CTP which includes all cumulative updates up to SQL Server 2008 SP1 cumulative update package 8. What makes this release interesting to evaluate (obviously only in non-production environments) for me...