With version 3.0 the SSMS 2014 is fully supported. Since this is a new major version you'll eventually need a new license. Please check the EULA to see when. As a thank you for your patience with this release, everyone that bought the SSMS Tools Pack after April 1st, the release date of SQL Server 2014, will receive a free upgrade.
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As we were working on our first SQL Saturday in Slovenia, we came to a point when we had to print out the so-called SpeedPASS's for attendees. This SpeedPASS file is a PDF and contains thier raffle, lunch and admission tickets.
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2013 has started great and the SQL community is already brimming with events. At some of these events you can come say hi. I’ll be glad you do!
These are the events with dates and locations that I know I’ll be speaking at so far.
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What better way to end the summer and start those productive autumn days ahead than with a fresh new version of the SSMS Tools Pack.
This is a big release with two new features that are huge productivity boosters.
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SQLBits: April 7th - April 9th 2011 in Brighton, UK
Free community event on Saturday (April 9th) with a paid conference day on Friday (April 8th) and a Pre Conference day full of day long seminars (April 7th).
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SQL injection is a method by which a hacker gains access to the database server by injecting specially formatted data through the user interface input fields. In the last few years we have witnessed a huge increase in the number of reported SQL injection attacks, many of which caused a great deal of damage.
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WMI is Windows Management Instrumentation infrastructure for managing data and machines. We can access it by using WQL (WMI querying language or SQL for WMI). One thing to remember from the WQL link is that it doesn't support ORDER BY.
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Today I had an interesting problem. If I rebuilt my solution every thing would succeed but after that if i pressed F5 (build) the whole solution would get built again but it would error out.
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There are times when you want to have one .cs file in multiple projects. However if you do Add existing item you’ll notice that the file is copied to each project’s folder.
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A while back we had an interesting problem at work. We were calculating MD5 hashes for some values in both .Net and SQL Server and although the input values were all the same our MD5 hashes were different.
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With this new version you can use it for SQL Server Management Studio 2008 and SQL Server Management Studio 2008 Express.
I've added a new feature to Search through the Database data.
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Let us start with a simple question:
What is the goal of software development, be it database or .Net (or any other language)?
The first answer would be: Customer satisfaction!
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On Monday I've finally installed the VS 2008 on my system. I put the installation DVD in, choose custom install, pressed run and went to lunch. After I returned, my computer was one VS 2008 richer.
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Lately I've been doing some image processing work using the most amazing AForge.NET open source library written in C#.
This library contains a whole bunch of useful filters you can play with but unfortunately it doesn't contain any filter for segmentation.
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In 2007 I've worked a lot with NUnitForms. It contains all major controls testers and you can easily create
your own ones for e.g. a Data Grid or a 3rd party control.
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it's my opinion that today we unfortunately live in a world that requires some kind of harder problem solving skills from maybe 20% of the population. And I'm being very very generous.
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Today I feel a bit evil minded so I thought I'd share this little prank-friendly function.
If you put this into a .Net Assembly you import to SQL Server as a function or a stored procedure
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UPDATE: After i've been proven wrong in the comments below I have to say this:
Go take a read of this article to see how circular references are really handled.
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I can't believe these properties aren't already natively implemented. Come on Microsoft... we do live in the year 2007 you know!!
I know that you can do this using P/Invoke and SendMessage but i wanted a nice managed way of finding the current line and column of the Caret position in a multiline TextBox.
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We're all familiar (i hope :)) with this construct:
try { // ... some code here ... } catch (Exception ex) { // one of these 2 lines are usually seen throw; // presereves the full call stack //throw ex; // changes the origin of exception to this method } finally { // more stuff here } It's a standard error catching routine in .
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