Monthly Archive: July 2010

SQL Server 2008 SP1 CU #9 is available

The SQL Server Release Services team recently announced that they have released a new Cumulative Update for SQL Server 2008 SP1: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlreleaseservices/archive/2010/07/19/cumulative-update-9-for-sql-server-2008-service-pack-1.aspx This update will bring you to build 10.00.2789.  From the looks of...

OT: How to make a bajillion dollars

It's pretty simple: buy the penny auction software that QuiBids* uses, get a hosting account somewhere, and go to town. * or Swoopo, or BigDeal, or BidCactus… the list goes on and on and...

Welcome to the jungle, CLR!

I've always been very reluctant to use the CLR.  On a completely unrelated tangent recently, I begrudgingly threw CLR into the ring of a string splitting performance test (blog post forthcoming).  Actually, the reason...