I'll be presenting at the Northern NJ .NET User Group meeting on Tuesday February 9.  Topics we'll cover include: Intro to SQL Server 2008 Integrated Full-Text Search (iFTS) features and functionality, including: Full-text indexes Thesaurus Word breakers, filters and stemming Multilanguage support Intro to SQL Server 2008 FILESTREAM ...

New Jersey SQL Server User Group (NJSQL) is bringing SQLSaturday #39 to NYC on April 24, 2010!  The free all-day training event will be hosted by Microsoft at their Midtown Manhattan offices.  The speaker line-up is growing fast—if you'd like to present, visit the event's open call for speakers.  This is a free full-day ...

The NJSQL user group is hosting a one-day Saturday SQL Server event at the Microsoft Iselin offices.  On October 24th Jacob Sebastian, Robert Pearl and I will be presenting on the following SQL Server topics: * T-SQL Defensive coding and exception handling best practices* Database forensics in SQL Server (''Who did it and ran?'')* SQL Server ...

I'll be presenting ''New SQL Server 2008 Features'' in downtown Louisville, KY on June 22, in conjunction with the Louisville SQL Server Users Group thanks to group leader Malathi Mahadevan.  We'll be giving away some SQL 2008 books and other goodies.  I'll post further details (exact time and location) shortly. Update:  The ...

In my last post I talked about how to work around a couple of the limitations of SQL Server encryption by using SQL CLR and the .NET Framework to encrypt a BLOB value (up to 2.1 GB in size), using any supported algorithm you choose. In the example I used AES to encrypt data using a passphrase. SQL Server 2008 also allows you to generate ...