Posted by Tony on Oct 18, 2009 in
SQL,
Work
Have I mentioned that I am not a fan of outsourcing? Wednesday, Thursday and Friday morning I was up early due to our outsourced contractors 12 timezones away having issues. Wednesday started at 0330, Tuesday started around 0230 and Friday started at 0118.
Friday was the worst day of the three because the issues came in [...]
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Posted by Tony on Oct 14, 2009 in
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Working on a SQL query from Forta’s SQL Server T-SQL in 10 Minutes when you have not slept much due to being up handling other IT problems since 0330 isn’t the best idea.
As you can see in the image below (click to embiggen) I am receiving … where I should see country names.
I re-read my [...]
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Posted by Tony on Oct 13, 2009 in
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SQL Server Express 2008 will run on Windows 7. Just remember to install SQL Server 2008 SP1 before you launch it.
More to come later.
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Posted by Tony on Aug 26, 2009 in
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Today I was tasked with adding SSIS to three SQL Server 2005 installs.
This should have been a simple process but it wasn’t. The first two went fine but the last one gave me errors. Because these were errors I had not seen before I became a bit frustrated and reached out to one of the [...]
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Posted by Tony on Jun 25, 2009 in
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I have a test box at work with SQL Server 2008 Express on it from December of 2008. What the box does not have is SQL Server Management Studio 2008 Express.
I have setup SQL Server 2008 Express along with SSMS 2008 Express at the same time but I haven’t tried adding SSMS 2008 Express at [...]
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Posted by Tony on Jun 8, 2009 in
SQL,
Training
I attended SQL Saturday this past weekend. 170+ people attended. I benefited the most from the presentations given by Brad McGehee and Steve Jones.
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