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SQL Server 2005 login problems

Tools

I had a very strange problem with SQL Server 2005 April CTP today that I have “solved” but just want to put it out there in case anyone has this happen too!

I installed VS2005 Beta2 and SQL Server 2005 April CTP Developer on a completely repaved clean machine. There is nothing else on the box.

I did this before I went to D.C. so that’s about 2 weeks ago. I ran through all o fmy demos and everything worked great. I went away for a week and still didn’t turn that machine on for another week, until today. I was unable to log into the sql server from code or from the Mgmnt Studio interface, not even into the default database. On both the lowly user or even the admin account, I was getting “invalid user”. I couldn’t run any of my demos from Visual Studio. I tried all kinds of stuff and finally gave in and uninstalled and reinstalled and everything is now fine.

I would be very interested to know if anyone else has had this behavior. I know it’s just a beta and expect wierdness, but am still curious.

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For Dog Owners

Purely Personal

This is not something I normally do, but is why I do have a “Purely Personal” category on this blog!

>
> TOP 10 (8 actually. The other 2 must have gotten deleted in  forwarding)
DOG PEEVES ABOUT HUMANS
>
> 1.  Blaming your farts on me…  not funny…  not funny at all!
>
> 2.  Yelling at me for barking …  I’M A FRIGGIN’  DOG!
>
> 3.  Taking me for walks, then not letting me check stuff out.  Exactly
> whose walk is this anyway?
>
> 4.  Any trick that involves balancing food on my nose … stop it!
>
> 5.  Any haircut that involves bows or ribbons.  Now you know why we
> chew your stuff up when you’re not home.
>
>
> 6.  The slight of hand, fake fetch throw.  You fooled a dog!  Whoooo
> Hoooooooo — what a proud moment for the ‘top’ of the food chain.
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> 7.  Taking me to the vet for the “big snip”, then acting surprised
> when I freak out every time we go back!
>
> 8.  Getting upset when I sniff the crotches of your guests.  Sorry,
> but I haven’t quite mastered that handshake thing yet.

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Team Foundation Server licenses in the box for small shops

dotNET

Well, wouldyalookatdat?!

MS is going to include 5 seats for Foundation Server with any of the team system skus.

This will make lots of people happy.

However I am scratching my head a little because, if I understand Thom’s explanation correctly the other night at VTdotNET, Foundation Server is aimed at huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge shops with lots and lots and lots of developers.

Anyway, I know a few small companies in Vermont that will be happy to hear this!

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Consultants and raising your hourly rates

Just Rambling

I found this interesting article on raising your hourly rates when you are a consultant. It is not directed at IT consultants, but just at consultants in general. I find it to be good objective advice. I had been billing the same rate for many many many years and have finally been adjusting to a new set of rates (still with a special rate for long-term clients) over the past few months. I know a lot of developers within our blogging .NET community that have made the leap to consulting in the past year or so. I have been working as a contractor since 1989, yet I sometimes need the same advice as a consulting newbie!

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Are you an early adopter? Addicted to Betas and CTPs?

Just Rambling

I have been thinking about the Birds of a Feather session that I am leading at TechEd called “Life on the Bleeding Edge” and hoping that there will be people there that are already heavily into technologies like Longhorn, Avalon, Indigo, or have used .NET for so long that they are almost bored silly with it. Tablet PC users, etc

I did not create the session because I have the answer, but becasue I think it’s a really interesting question and am very hopeful that there will be a mix of early adopters and VB6 devotees for an interesting dicussion. Here’s the info

BOF031  Life on the Bleeding Edge
Speaker(s): Julie Lerman
Session Type(s): Birds of a Feather
Day/Time: Wednesday, June 8 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM Room: Track Cabana 01A
Whidbey, Yukon, Indigo, Avalon, Longhorn, EEEK! How the heck do we learn all this stuff when we can’t even keep on top of all of the current technology? Come to this BOF and we can talk about how we decide how far ahead we should be looking, how we pick and choose what we want to learn and how we find the time and energy to do it.

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Webcast on using MARS (ADO.NET 2.0/SQL Server 2005)

ADO.NET 2

I am going to be doing a webcast with DCC Glen Gordon on the topic of MARS – Multiple Active Resultsets – on May 25th. This is one of a pair of ADO.NET 2 talks that Glen and Mark Dunn are doing together, but I’ll be filling in for Mark on this one. MARS is a topic that I have been digging into for almost the past year as part of my explorations of ADO.NET 2.0, so I’m looking forward to the webcast which will be full of how-to’s and watch-out’s!

The first webcast is an ADO.NET 2.0 overview that Mark & Glen will be doing on May 23rd.

Glen has a deep level of experience with SQL Server, so I am really looking forward to his perspective on MARS and am happy that Mark thought of me when he realized he had a difficult scheduling conflict.

You can register here for the MARS webcast.

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