I had to laugh at a comment on a Connect item suggesting SQL Server needed to "keep up" with MySQL.

While <> and != behave the same, there is one reason you may want to use the former instead of the latter.

Big customers have big influence : see how some of the upper limits have changed in SQL Server 2008.

I found an early version of Shazam.

I explain yet another reason "Open Table" (now "Edit Top n Rows") is a dangerous button to press.

A quick post to show how to pull autogrow events from the default trace.

See how to use Common Table Expressions to derive a more efficient median.

In 2006, I sold aspfaq.com, but it eventually got taken over by malware.