Weekly Link Roundup 2009-01-28

Stuff I’ve been reading:

Lots and lots of stuff on the digital tv transition:  This is fascinating to me; it’s a perfect example of the stupidity of federal government.  They sold the bandwidth, so everyone needs to upgrade.  They set a date.  We have a change in exeuctive administration (but not in legislative), and suddenly the date’s no good anymore.  I wonder how many lawsuits will be filed by the companies that will technically own the airwaves past the transition date if it gets delayed?

I’ve gone back to the newsgroups:  I used to post quite frequently in microsoft.public.sqlserver.programming (and a few others), but got tired of the same old questions, and many of the same old responses.  However, since SQL Server 2008 has been released, there’s some fresh meat in there.

Notes from SQLSaturday #10 in Tampa:  I’ll admit it; I’m starting to get nervous about our own upcoming SQLSaturday.  Andy Warren’s writeup of the recent SQLSaturday just goes to remind me of how much we’ve got left to do.  Speaking of Andy, he’s also posted his PASS Updates: 1, 2, 3

Happy coding.

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