After this morning’s horrorshow* , I think I’ll just go back to my old fashioned method of creating scripts and the running them on the production sql server rather than trying to get fancy again and export them.

*that’s a “Clockwork Orange” reference by the way for all you youngsters! 🙂

I was just exporting some brand new sprocs from my dev sql server to my production sql server.

When doing it, I got an error and when I looked at the error it said that it couldn’t drop a particular TABLE for some reason.

I wasn’t dropping tables! What is it doing? Egads!

Now I have to go through the application to make sure that nothing got whacked (yes we have backups every 6 hours..)

update: yes tables got dropped … thank goodness for our backups (every 6 hours). Though I explicitly only chose sprocs as objects to be exported, we still have figure out WHY this happened. Big thanks to my friend and SQL Server Guru, Roman Rehak! And I should probably go to the local SQL Server User Group meeting tomorrow night – the topic is BackUp and Restore!!

I (and at least one other person that I am aware of) signed up for the reporting services beta about 3 weeks ago. It mentions a wait of a coupla days to hear back. I’m really eager to get a good look at it. So is my client who is considering the alternatives as well (hint hint). Any chance?

I have been using the Personal Update dashboard for about 3 years. I really love it. I open up outlook and see highlights of my calendar, the weather, headlines of topics I have chosen, and the state of my paltry stocks.

I was SO VERY SAD to see this today. I’m sure there is a replacement somewhere, but I don’t have time to look. Hey, maybe its just built right into Outlook 2003 and I didn’t realize it! I’ll have to look into that AFTER I do my client work!

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