The third WARDY IT Solutions SQL Server breakfast for the year is on Thursday the 7th of August. This breakfast is a Free quarterly event hosted by WARDY IT Solutions. Catering will be served from 7:30am with the one hour presentation starting at 8:00am....

The March WARDY IT SQL Server newsletter has been sent to everyone on the distribution list. Not on the list and want to see what is happening in the world of Microsoft SQL Server – the March newsletter is available here . To subscribe so you get the...

The second WARDY IT Solutions SQL Server breakfast for the year is on Thursday the 7 th of May. This breakfast is a Free quarterly event hosted by WARDY IT Solutions. Catering will be served from 7:30am with the one hour presentation starting at 8:00am....

The February WARDY IT SQL Server newsletter has been sent to everyone on the distribution list. Not on the list and want to see what is happening in the world of Microsoft SQL Server – the newsletter is available at http://www.wardyit.com/newsletters/feb2009.html...

SQL Server expert Kalen Delaney , the author of Inside SQL Server and the new book SQL Server 2008 Internals , is a special guest in Australia this June for WARDY IT Solutions. Kalen will be presenting a not to be missed one day seminar in Melbourne,...

Peter Ward will be presenting a Breakout session at Tech-Ed North America in May. Tech-Ed North America is the largest Microsoft conference in the world with over 10,000 attendees. This year there will only be 30 SQL Server sessions and Peter Ward has...

A question that I am often asked when I do a presentation is how I configure SSMS so that when the query is executed the query is displayed in the header of the messages. I find that when presenting it can be easier to talk to the output rather than flicking...

The first WARDY IT Solutions SQL Server breakfast for the year kicks off on Wednesday the 11th of February. This breakfast is a Free quarterly event hosted by WARDY IT Solutions. This quarter's breakfast will take place on Wednesday the 11th of February....

Over the Christmas period I managed to nail one of my TODO's: " organise outlook, documents, music and pictures on the two home computers ". This TODO has been around for years and I finally nailed it. Like so many TODO's in my life, many get put off...

For those who have DreamScene and have never tried it I recommend you do. I just did and it's cool! If like me you didn't know how to set it up then check out http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/51a8bdac-cd66-4ae3-afdf-6c6dcf804b991033.mspx...

One thing that I've learned as a programmer is that nothing is easy. Or to put it another way, there is a lot of hidden work in software development. To explain consider this scenario: a client needs an FTP site checked regularly and content downloaded,...

Jeff Wharton has been re-awarded for the second year running as a Microsoft MVP Windows Server System - SQL Server. The award is recognition for Jeff's technical excellence and commitmnet to the Microsoft SQL Server community. WARDY IT Solutions is the...

The December SQL Server newsletter has beee sent to everyone on the Distribution list. Not on the list and want to see what is happening in the world of Microsoft SQL Server – the newsletter is available at http://www.wardyit.com/newsletters/dec2008.html...

Did you know that when enabled, select versions of Microsoft Vista store previous copies of your files and folders? This means that you can get them back if you need them. To view the previous versions of a folder open Windows Explorer, navigate to the...

I came across this issue recently when trying to create unit tests with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Test stubs were created for the Public methods of the class but VS2008 could not create a Private Accessor for the Private methods e.g.: /// <summary>...

Guess what I discovered today? The SQL Database Wizard for Visual Studio! This solves the age old problem of scripting your database structure so that you can create your database on a remote/hosted server. What's more the SQL Database Wizard also has...

Here's something that just got me. The TabPage.Hide() method doesn't hide the TabPage. You have to remove the TabPage from the TabControl . TabPages collection: ProductTabControl.TabPages.Remove(PurchasingTabPage); Top , Height , Left , Width and Show...

They say you learn something new every day. In IT I learn at least a dozen new things every day. Did you know that there are two different rounding methods in .Net? I didn't. Now I've come across them in two different applications in the same week. They...

Just in case you didn't know, I have been growing a moustache as part of Movember . I would now like to introduce you to my Mo . This is the first moustache I have ever grown and I am quite proud of my effort. Apart from the dribbling, it's a great companion....

Something hinky went wrong when I installed SQL Server 2008 on my Development machine and the "Restart Computer" rule kept failing no matter how many times I rebooted. After some Googling I found this page which suggested clearing the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE...

Recently I had to come up with a way of determining how long a SQL Instance had been running. It turns out that there are a few ways to do it and here is my preferred way: SELECT crdate FROM sysdatabases WHERE [name] = 'tempdb' This works because the...

On the 6 th of November I joined other local developers at the Microsoft Offices in Brisbane and around the world to listen to Steve Balmer talk to developers 1 . He was excited and so was I. Steve confirmed one of my truths which is that "the really...

This summer AB Training , Portal Synergy , WARDY IT Solutions and Microsoft Partner Readiness will be showcasing the latest Microsoft technologies as part of Tech SummerFest 08 . In Hobart, Adelaide and Canberra you will have the opportunity to see how...

The WARDY IT Community Dinner is typically held on the second Monday of the month and is a great opportunity to share knowledge, information and experiences with other IT professionals in South East Queensland. This month the WARDY IT Community Dinner...

As SQL Server 2008 has been released for two month's WARDY IT Solutions will be hosting a series of Free breakfasts on SQL Server 2008. The first breakfast will kick off in Brisbane on Tuesday the 14 th of October. Below is the current Breakfast Schedule:...