I am always amazed at how many people have still not heard of SQL Saturday, a series of events put on by the Professional Association of SQL Server. At the presentation Jeff Szastak and I gave at VMworld on Virtualizing SQL Server: Doing IT RIght, we had an audience of about 800 people each time [...]

The recent exposure of hundreds of thousands of government documents by WikiLeaks points to the lack of both adequate procedures and sufficient deployment of automated technology to secure data from abuses by so-called “authorized users.” Currently, the government has arrested and charged Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who is suspected of giving classified documents to WikiLeaks. [...]