Robin Edwards is the leader of the Roanoke Valley .Net User Group. They did something really cool for their last meeting (July 2008). As Robin describes it: Some of the members of RV.NUG tossed around a way to get more involvement during the meeting AND deal with the low summer attendance by coming up with something fun and easy.  We were ...

No one panic - I'm still a Solid Quality Mentor. :) I am honored to accept the responsibilities of PASS Regional Mentor for the US Southeast! What does this mean? Well, I get to work with SQL Server User Groups and PASS chapters from Texas to North Carolina. If you're interested in starting a SQL Server Users Group - regardless of ...

Adam Machanic is addressing the Richmond SQL Server Users Group tonight! In fact, I have to go now and pick him up from the airport. Now if I could only get this other SQLBlog guy to present... :{> Andy

Mea... This may be a little off-topic. I use Virtual Server and Virtual PC a lot for things like testing beta and CTP releases of SQL Server. I don't have time or the inclination to reformat physical hard drives, load an OS, or even fiddle with restoring from an enterprise backup solution like Ghost. I blogged about configuring IIS7 for ...

Eric Wise drew some heat from the developer community at CodeBetter.com with this post about the need for a DBA during development (see my post on the subject here). I think Eric makes a couple good points, one explicit, one implied: 1. (Explicit) A DBA - or Database Developer, more accurately (and there is a difference) - adds ...