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Saturday Oct 6th sees the first SQL Community conference (SQLBits - (http://www.SQLBits.com), 20 sessions in 4 tracks (Business Intelligence, DBA, Development and Katmai) on a Saturday in Reading at a cost of £0. That’s right, nothing, nada, or in SQL terms IS NULL (ok, not really, I know NULL means no data, not a decimal/money value of 0, but come on, it’s marketing people). Full registration is now open, places are going fast, but there’s only room for 350 people. You need to register on the http://www.SQLBits.com site and then select the 10 sessions (http://www.sqlbits.com/information/PublicSessions.aspx) you would most like to...
I was a bit of a selfish bunny at the London Girl Geek Dinner last week, and cornered Eileen Brown to see if she had a SQL minion that could help me try to get the client tools installed again; unfortunately the SQL Evangelist position is still open, but after refilling her wine glass and joking she owed me a support call for being her booze monkey she reached into her handbag and produced a quick assist card. If you've ever found yourself at a party and someone says "Can you fix my computer?", well Microsoft have the answer...
Last month I blogged about the problems I had when trying to upgrade to SQL Express SP2 (and MS's refusal to let me open a support incident on it). As the Scottish Developers day draws closer and one of my presentations depended on SQL Express I decided to try to clean everything up and try again. Eventually I managed to uninstall SQL Developer Edition. Once the machine was clean, and had I hand deleted a bunch of left over registry entries I tried the SQL Express SP2 install. It worked! Bliss. So next was installing SQL Developer Edition. This was problematic to...