Of course, by now everyone is running Visual Studio 2005, riiight? [8-|] For those folks that are just beginning to install, check out this tool that will clean your machine of previous versions of pre-released Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005...

Here is a situation I recently ran across. We created a report which executed a stored procedure. The parameters being passed had default values, so that when they were not qualified, they would default to pre-assigned values. Thus, when these "optional...

How many times have you reported a problem with website or web applicaiton and the level 1 support person on the other end says "eehh... clear your browser cache...". As you groan and go through all the nooks and crannies of IE to try to erase your tracks...

The official SQL Server 2005 table map can be found below in .pdf format. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2ec9e842-40be-4321-9b56-92fd3860fb32&DisplayLang=en

I've now officially got my Team Foundation Server six guns strapped on. I've been attempting to establish a fresh install of Team Foundation Server Beta 3 on a fresh Virtual Machine running Windows 2003, SQL Server 2005 and Team Foundation Server. Here...

Still attempting the install on a fresh Virtual PC. The last time I tried the install, I attempted to be slick and copy an existing SQL Server 2005 Virtual Machine I had and rename it. That led to a host of problems, including the fact that while SQL...