The SQL Server sample databases now live there: Microsoft SQL Server Community & Samples - Home Pubs and Northwind are still here though: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=06616212-0356-46A0-8DA2-EEBC53A68034&displaylang...

Well, I found an unexpected sliver of time. I'd been planning for a while to replace the 32-bit version of Vista with a 64-bit install for a while. The upgrade went very smoothly. I used "Windows Easy Transfer", but I got a few superfluous settings...

I finally ran into this today--my build wouldn't execute because my path name was longer that 259 characters. I had my root directory named "<drive>:\builddepot", and a really long name for my build (i.e. avoid "Adventureworks Supercalifragilous...

I picked Jeff Atwood's theme , increased the text editor font size to 12, and used Tomas Restrepo's stylesheet to transform it to Visual Studio 2008 settings from Visual Studio 2005 settings. Using "Tools->Import and Export" is also a great...

The "Data Dude" team added an MSBuild-callable static code analysis feature, a data generation wizard that pulls the contents of an existing database to set sample data in a new database, a file-based data generator that lets you stream file data into...