I’m no security expert, not even close (I just read about it), while Bruce Schneier is really world renowned security expert. I’m an avid reader of his monthly newsletter and, far more importantly, Neil Stephenson thanked him in Cryptonomicon which is ummmm… words fail me but let’s say awesome. However there is one particular hypothesis of Bruce Schneier that I never bought into, not even a little bit; the “our customers are victims of phishing but it isn’t affecting us” hypothesis of phishing as externality.

The new version of Boost library has been released recently. Since we have released ApexSQL Log 2005.04 just the other day, we can now migrate our source base to Boost 1.34. This post will deal with building of Boost static libraries for side-by-side compilation and linking of x86, x64 and IA64 libraries. This is now much easier than it was in Boost 1.33 but there is still some work to be done.

Paul Randal, over at SQL Server Storage Engine blog, discusses in his post the difference between database version and database compatibility level. When working with ApexSQL Log this difference is important since any db on SQL Server 2005, even with compatibility level of 70 (SQL Server 7) or 80 (SQL Server 2000), still has the same structure of system tables as a db with the level of 90 (SQL Server 2005).