Now that our 5-month old son - Riley Cooper - is on the mend, I am hitting the speaking trail again! 09 Jan 2008: I'm presenting Testing The Database to the Triangle .Net User Group (TRINUG) Wednesday evening in Research Triangle Park, NC (location details). 12 Jan 2008: I'm presenting Incremental Loads With SSIS - by far my most popular SSIS ...

According to numerous sources - most recently a SQL Server Magazine article entitled Too Soon for SQL Server 2008? Readers Say ''Yes!'' - a lot of SQL Server customers are holding off upgrading to SQL Server 2005, preferring to wait for the upcoming release of SQL Server 2008. While I understand the economics, I worry about the ...