Everyday Adventures
SQL Server, JDBC, XA, and Windows 7
One of the Support Engineers on my team approached me the other day and asked if the SQL Server 2005...
Date: 12/30/2009
Empty Windows
I ran into an odd behavior the other day with SSRS 2008. I was troubleshooting a Reporting...
Date: 11/16/2009
New and improved setspn
Ever have one of those “I want to kick myself” when you realize something you had been putting off...
Date: 10/11/2009
UnsupportedClassVersionError – huh?!
I was recently doing some testing with the new SQL Server 2005 v2.0 JDBC driver and couldn’t get the...
Date: 08/02/2009
Waaay more connections than necessary
We had a dump where we got a .NET OutofMemory exception. The ASP.NET folks looked at the dump and...
Date: 04/05/2009
Checkin’ those components!!
Well, it finally happened – Component Checker 2.0 was finally posted on Microsoft.com. I don’t know...
Date: 12/21/2008
BOGO(HO)
OK, so I always said that I would never use my blog for a rant, but I have finally reached my limit...
Date: 12/16/2008
What the heck is a Microsoft-hosted service?!?!!
With the recent public CTP of Azure, there has been a lot of confusion (both internally and...
Date: 11/23/2008
Who Am I?
I work in CSS for Microsoft. My team supports almost everything related to SQL Server that is not...
Date: 11/02/2008