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Friday, July 21, 2006
Tom (of Foster-imitation fame) gets back in the mockery seat to mock my away message: "I've been snarfed by a giant kerschnuffle. You'll never see me again!"
Tom writes:
So there's this Karen girl, you see. Young slip of a thing, barely old enough to know she's alive. Offer her a piece of advice I did. "Karen," I said gently, "Karen, there is one thing in this world of which you must be wary. One thing for which you must keep the eagle eye peeled. One agent of greater menacing potential than all other things combined. That thing is the giant kerschnuffle. If you are not eternally vigilant, sometime you'll turn around and a giant kerschnuffle will be there to snarf you." I offered my sage advice gently, and with foreboding. But did she listen? No. Not a whit of it penetrated her cranium to lodge in her cerebellum. So not long ago--just today in fact--she was pawing about the home establishment and a giant kerschnuffle appeared in her vicinity, having insinuated her less-than-eternally-vigilant defenses. And what did it do? I'll tell you. It snarfed her. Completely and without pause. Alas, sometimes these young slips of things have to learn by example, even when they're done in by the process. Too bad, she was a pleasant one, too.Labels: Writings
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- Procure a box of frozen chicken-and-cheese quesedillas (other flavors may be substituted, but the author does not guarantee results).
- Open said box on the end where the the inner bag is sealed (location of sealed end is not labeled, leading you to believe, when you see the sealed bag, that both ends are sealed, as is the norm).
- Over hard floor (tile recommended), grasp sealed end of bag firmly and quickly withdraw bag from box.
- Watch in dismay as frozen contents of bag fly out unsealed end and shatter all over the floor.
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Thursday, July 20, 2006
When deploying database code, I'm running each SQL script on several servers, and having to click the "change connection" button dozens of times in SSMS is very frustrating. I submitted this as a bug to Microsoft, and Bill Ramos offered the following method for creating a keyboard shortcut:
- Open a Query Editor window connected to your favorite server.
- Right click on the Change Connection toolbar button on the Query Toolbar button and select the Customize command at the bottom of the menu.
- Right click on Change Connection button again and then change the command name "C&hange Connection..." to "Chan&ge Connection...". This will change the hot key from Alt-H (which would conflict with the Help menu hot key) to Alt-G.
- Finally, in the Right Click menu for the Change Connection button, you need to select the command option to display both "Image and Text". This exposes the Alt-G command to the Query Editor.
- You can now close the Customize dialog and use Alt-G as your hot key!
I love this shortcut. I use it dozens of times daily. It's still too much overhead for deploying, though, so I either use Query Analyzer (open a window, drag all the files into it, and they all open with a connection to that same server without prompting) or an application I wrote to accept a deploy list, get the files from our source control provider, and put them all into one script with appropriate USE [database] statements. Labels: SQL Server, SQL Server - SSMS
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Friday, July 14, 2006
A marmot with a trench coat takes an elegant paddle-wheel boat;
a stoat with bad toupe is casually tossed in the moat.Labels: Uncategorizable Silliness, Writings
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Gad flies, gad flies, over the bounding main!
Eaten by omnivorous weasels under toodstools in the rain!
One weasel chose to thumb his nose at a passing catamaran,
And to his fervent, hairy dismay, a third world war began!Labels: Uncategorizable Silliness, Writings
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