January 2011 - Posts

• EULAs, Passwords and the Apple AppStore

  One thing about being around the industry since the days when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, is that you can get to be a little philosophical about the industry at times. There are two things that I've been thinking about again today, where we seem to be Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 19, 2011 9:00 PM by Greg Low | 7 Comments

• In SQLCMD mode, should CONNECT be an implicit batch separator?

  Hi Folks, I've been working with SQLCMD mode again today and one thing about it always bites me. If I execute a script like: :CONNECT SERVER1 SELECT @@VERSION; :CONNECT SERVER2 SELECT @@VERSION; :CONNECT SERVER3 SELECT @@VERSION; I'm sure I'm not the Read More... Posted Monday, January 17, 2011 7:32 PM by Greg Low | 6 Comments

• Should SQL Server tools target wide screen formats instead of portrait formats?

  There was a short discussion on the SQL Down Under mailing list this morning about screen resolutions for working with the SQL Server tools. In particular, the issue was about how unusable the tools are on the 1366x768 resolution notebooks that now seem Read More... Posted Monday, January 17, 2011 1:12 PM by Greg Low | 10 Comments

• Log Shipping Between SQL Server Versions (perhaps 2005 to 2008)

  One of the discussion lists that I participate in, had a brief discussion this morning about whether or not it's possible to perform log shipping between differernt versions of SQL Server. Specifically, can you do log shipping between SQL Server 2005 Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 12, 2011 11:08 AM by Greg Low | 16 Comments

• New Upgrade Technical Reference for SQL Server 2008 R2

  Hi Folks, A year or two back, I was involved in a project with my colleagues from SolidQ (led by Ron Talmage) to construct an Upgrade Technical Reference for SQL Server 2008. It seemed to be well received. We've updated it now to SQL Server 2008 R2 and Read More... Posted Saturday, January 8, 2011 9:14 PM by Greg Low | 0 Comments