If you are looking to get a head start on SQL Server 2005 then the SQL Server 2005 Get Ready Webcast series will help bring you up to speed.
If you are looking to try SQL Server 2005 and do not have a spare computer and do not want to install Virtual PC then the SQL Server 2005 Virtual Labs are for you.
The Microsoft SQL Server team have come up with an amendment to the sp_MSdbuseraccess Stored Procedure so that it only runs in the databases a user has access to.
We will continue to publish the monthly newsletters in its current format; but the new Weblog will also allow us the ability to rapidly publish information that we think will be of interest to the SQL Server community.
I am now heading over to Denmark in the first week of March next year to present at the first ever SQL Server Open World conference.