SQL Server Links
Database Manager for IIS7 – IIS7 is designed to enable quick installation of mini-applications. If you’ve used a Linux web host, it’s like Fantastico – a gallery of apps that you can point and click to install. This Database Manager app is a web-based version of SSMS – just enough functionality to get basic database work done. Developers are gonna be all over this.
Microsoft Support Switching to Call-Back Model – for non-Premier customers, they’ll call you back instead of keeping you on the phone while they track down the right person. If you’re in a company with 25 or more IT people (developers, Windows guys, whatever) you should check out Premier Support. Yes, 25 is a low number, but Premier is amazing.
Does join order matter? – New blogger Christopher Stobbs writes my favorite kind of article: show and tell.
Using SQL Server Reporting Services in Client Mode – you can write your own reports for SSMS using this technique.
Erland’s SQL Server Wishlist – a list of items on Microsoft Connect that he wants you to vote on. This is absolutely brilliant – I’ve resolved to spend time next week going through Connect. It’s neat just for a learning exercise if nothing else.
Denis Gobo’s SQL Quiz – some tricky T-SQL and engine questions to test your knowledge. The answers are here.
David Stein touches SSRS for the first time – I had this exact same “whoa” experience when I first saw SSRS, SSAS and SSIS. I’ve spent my whole career just diving into the engine, and then I crack open these tools and say to myself, “My God, it’s full of stars!” (Sorry, changed movie tracks there.)
Cloud Links
SQL Data Services Q&A on New Changes – they’re delivering a public CTP mid-calendar year 2009, and shipping in the second half. SQL Server in the cloud is coming…
Salesforce.com Runs on 1,000 Servers – TechCrunch says, “55,000 enterprise customers, 1.5 million individual subscribers, 30 million lines of third-party code.” Makes me wonder about the size of Facebook’s server pools.
More security holes in Google Docs – look, people, stop reacting with shock and awe. It’s a young product. It’s gonna have bugs. How secure was Windows 3.1, eh? 95? 98? Young products have security issues. Quit storing your secure data on somebody else’s brand new platform. Keep your black book locally in an encrypted text file.
Junk Drawer
Drinkin and Dialin
Avoid drunk dialing with the Bad Decision Blocker – before you go out on a bender, set up this iPhone application to prevent drunk dialing of your exes. And probably your manager too, come to think of it.
Apple WWDC scheduled for June 8-12 – Apple’s announced new iPhones the last two summers, and I’m hoping they announce another one at WWDC. I’m still on my original first generation, and it’s cool, don’t get me wrong, but I’m itching to get a new one. I don’t surf enough to need 3G, and I’d like GPS, but not enough to shell out for a new phone.
Credibility comes from who you are, not where you work – Stephen Fosketts talks about the basics of the business of consulting, and that credibility line really resonated for me.
Advice on Setting a Price for Your Business – when negotiating with a venture capitalist, here’s a tip on how to get yourself a much better deal.
Urine-soaked coins aren’t accepted as payment for speeding tickets – who knew?
New Tesla S model unveiled – Tesla’s trying to get a government loan to build the car, and I hope they get it. That car is nothing short of gorgeous. The big LCD panel in the center console and the integrated 3G internet are just icing on the cake for us geeks.
