The Daily Six Pack: June 25, 2015

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: SQL Injection Free Webinar Free recorded webinar on Pluralsight: Why SQL Injection Remains the #1 Web Security Risk Today, Troy Hunt Other Visual Studio Code and Docker, Sean McBreen SQL Server Management Studio Query Designer Shortcuts, Babu Akkandi…

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The Daily Six Pack: December 09, 2014

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Einstein Regarding Haters Read what Albert Einstein wrote to Marie Curie about haters, Mike Fenn Other Introducing Microsoft Imagine, Kristen Hamilton Preventing a screen from closing in the LightSwitch desktop client, Jan Van der Haegen What's new…

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The Daily Six Pack: July 30, 2014

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Swift Introduction Part 2 An Introduction to Swift: Part 2, Michael Musallam Other Integrating “News” in the VS IDE … a cool extension update!, Willy-P. Schaub What is the difference between Build and Rebuild in Visual Studio?, Dean…

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Execute Script Error Resolved In SQL Server Management Studio

Execute Script Error – Imagine my surprise when I tried executing a rather large SQL script (255 Mb) and received an error telling me that there was ‘Insufficient memory to continue the execution of the program. (mscorlib)’. You might be wondering why I would even have such a large script to begin with.

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Well I had to import data from a file that I didn’t have access to any more, so I decided to script the table contents from the live database and import into my dev database for testing. Trying to run the query produced the error and I had to find an alternative way to get the data into my table. (more…)

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SQL Server Management Studio – Changing Default Data Type In Table Designer

If there is one thing that I always had a pet peeve with, was the table designer column data type default in SQL Server Management Studio. You have no option (that I am aware of) to change the default column data type when creating a new data table in table designer. SQL Server Management Studio decides that using ‘nchar’ is the way to go.

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Well if you want to make your columns another data type, you need to manually select the default value and change it to the data type you want. I wanted to find a way to change that default. Turns out that there is an easy way to accomplish this. (more…)

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The Daily Six Pack: January 21, 2014

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Transact SQL Transact-SQL Named 'Programming Language of the Year' for 2013, David Ramel Other Source Code in TV and Films, John Graham-Cumming Team Foundation Server Usage at Microsoft, Zain Naboulsi How to Validate Syntax…

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