The SQL Server Roadshow [http://www.windowsitpro.com/roadshows/sqlserverusa/] is finally dragging itself to my neck of the woods. I plan to be there. Is anyone else from Kansas City planning to go?…
This just amazes me. I just deleted over 1,000 spam posts from the various comments. Are these being manually entered? Are these people that stupid?…
I had a previous post about automatic bug reporting using FogBugz 3.0 [http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/billg/archive/2004/06/26/usingscout.aspx]. I recently upgraded to FogBugz 4.0 [http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/] so I had to go through the process of setting this up again. (You…
I've finally put up a CAPTCHA test for comment posting. This should reduce the amount of comment spam we've been getting. All the credit goes to Davide Mauri [http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/dmauri/] for creating a detailed list of instructions for implementing this in .TEXT. You…
I'll be presenting to the AITP group in Kansas City on May 25th. You can find out more information about the event on their web site [http://www.kc.aitp.org/dinner/meeting.html]. It's a dinner event will a couple of different presentations and you…
I've updated my NAnt tasks to 0.94 (source [http://www.sqlteam.com/downloads/ClearData.NAntTasks-0.94-src.zip] and binary [http://www.sqlteam.com/downloads/ClearData.NAntTasks-0.94.zip]). I've added three new tasks. The first is a task to load an Excel spreadsheet into a…
I deleted about 300 spam messages today. It also updated post counts. What a pain.…
Last year Joel (of JoelOnSoftware.com [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/index.html] ) wrote an article that had a little blurb on the “MSDN Way [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html]” of doing things. That basically amounted to always using the newest, fanciest tools to solve a problem. Why use…
I wish I remember where I saw this posted. I owe mad props to someone but I can't remember who. If your server has lots of databases that you don't have access to and you connect using Enterprise Manager you may have noticed that it takes…
In my long tradition of releasing odd utilities (ok, utility) that no one but me uses I think I've come up with a winner. On one of my projects we've created an extensive database build process using NAnt [http://nant.sourceforge.net/]. This process creates the…