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Degenerate dimensions in VSTS DB edition GDR R2 (a.k.a. TSD03136): This is a common pattern in many BI projects that I’ve been involved with in the past four or five years for deriving degenerate dimensions without expending the effort to build and maintain star schema or snowflake tables in a data mart or data warehouse. Read More...
Posted 07 August 09 09:54 by reedme | 0 Comments
Filed under Data Dude, Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals, Visual Studio, DBPro, annoyances, bleep, Note2Self, party
erR? TSD03006. Doh!: I’m often skeptical when I read things like this that make absolute statements: To resolve this problem, upgrade to Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR R2. FIX: When you access a table source in a referenced project by using Read More...
Posted 06 August 09 04:17 by reedme | 1 Comments
Filed under Data Dude, Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals, Visual Studio, DBPro, annoyances, bleep, Note2Self
Vista SP2 Compatibility Mode Builds Character... on Windows 7: The kids have gotten to the age where they’re pestering us to play Dungeons & Dragons with them. Well, my oldest son is and he’s dragging his sister along (kicking and screaming, metaphorically-speaking). Heh. Unfortunately, this isn’t his Grandpa’s Read More...
Posted 20 July 09 11:20 by reedme | 0 Comments
Filed under autism, development, customer feedback, annoyances, bleep, installer, .NET, dungeons, roleplay, dragons, wizards
We need to do $@#%ing research to learn this?: Speaking on behalf of all men with a workshop or a garage (which reminds me, I have a top 10 list that I need to post somewhere from a couple weekends back), this research is a big “Duh!” Why do people get paid to do research like this? How can I get Read More...
Posted 13 July 09 02:39 by reedme | 1 Comments
Filed under stupid science, language, annoyances, You're doing it wrong!
This explains so many things... Scott Adams explains compensation modeling?: This metaphor can probably be extended to ‘splain corporate and governmental policies of all kinds! Of course, it would actually be worse (at least for me) if compensation was tied to the performance of friends and family. Heh! For the record, I used Read More...
Posted 09 July 09 01:06 by reedme | 1 Comments
Filed under geek humor, annoyances, performance, bleep, compensation
For want of a chainsaw, the trip was lost...: About two or three weekends back, we took the Sequoia up toward the Glacier Peak Wilderness loaded with the family (wife, kids, me) and various pieces of what-if back country gear: important stuff like MREs, bonus water, rope and rappelling stuff, tire Read More...
Posted 15 May 09 12:30 by reedme | 1 Comments
Filed under family, snow, annoyances, bleep, wilderness, chainsaw
Log Shipping + Database Snapshots == Bummer, dude!!: So, like most funny stories (involving me), this one starts with “Yesterday, I had this bright idea...” and goes downhill from there. Database mirroring is great. Full stop. But there’s this one little catch: it can only have a single mirror copy of the Read More...
Posted 24 April 09 08:29 by reedme | 1 Comments
Filed under database, SQL Server, Katmai, high availability, annoyances, mirroring, log shipping
Ooops. Better luck next time!: Another Tunguska might’ve been fun! Space rock gives Earth a close shave Of course, a mass extinction might have been less fun, so let’s not and say we did? Read More...
Posted 04 March 09 08:23 by reedme | 1 Comments
Filed under annoyances, space, astronomy
PFT 1: Me 0 (belated January 2009 Update): My fitness duel with Steve is ongoing, but I’m saddened by my progress to date. Nonetheless, the January-ish test (actually done on 2/2/2009) of my progress has hardened my resolve. I did manage to drop ~15# in January, but since I’ve still got another Read More...
Posted 05 February 09 06:17 by reedme | 1 Comments
Filed under annoyances, bleep, pullups, situps, marathon, weight loss, New Year's Resolutions, PFT, fitness duel
Game on! Steve's going down...: My buddy, one of the Steves, has gotten nostalgic for his girlish figure of yore... for reasons inexplicable to me. Round is a shape, right? He's very much in shape now! Come to think of it, so am I. *sigh* But, because he likes to lose at contests, he Read More...
Posted 29 December 08 09:17 by reedme | 4 Comments
Filed under annoyances, bleep, pullups, situps, marathon, weight loss, New Year's Resolutions
SHIFT+TAB? How I miss thee... in IE.: At least on Vista, my mouse-hating keyboard reflexes have been stymied for a while. (I don't really hate mice, I just hate having to move the mouse when I shouldn't have to. I'm sorry, I'm old. I was born before computer mice were invented, and I developed Read More...
Posted 19 June 08 10:00 by reedme | 8 Comments
Filed under x64, annoyances, Internet Explorer, Windows Live Toolbar, IE, SHIFT+TAB

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