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Bad Decisions: Not Just For The Young Hollywood Elite

I give you exhibit A: The Last Straw:                        Yes, Third Party Software vendors out there are still trying to ruffie our SQL Servers.  I encountered these instructions yesterday when reviewing a pending installation process.  What you don’t see here though are items 1-11 in their instructions (one being a requirement for(…)

Turn Management Studio Into A Web Browser

First of all I can’t take credit for this.  The credit for what I’m about to show you comes courtesy of Steve Jones and the crew of 1,000s over at SQLServerCentral.  When I stumbled across this today I felt like Charlie Sheen on a bender in Amsterdam.  What am I talking about?  Well, it’s about turning SQL Server Management Studio(…)

Top 10 Things I Learned Last Week: Week of 4/11/2010

Jason Strate (Web|Twitter) sings like the worst drunken office Santa ever William Shatner; dances like Seth Rogan after a debilitating and permanent head injury Dr. Stephen Hawking.  Unfortunately Jes Borland (Web|Twitter) gets caught in the crossfire. Companies still continue to make money selling products developed on 32-bit Windows, running 32-bit SQL Server 2005.   Some software(…)