Ctrl+R doesn't work

I had the following conversation with my VM the other day:

Why can't I push Control+R (Ctrl+R) in SSMS 2012, and have my query results window go away?  

I'm on a virtual machine here, Mr. SSMS, and I really don't need to see, again, that I just accidentally selected getdate().

In order to get Management Studio to give me back my full editing window, I went in to settings and reset the keyboard layout.

Like this:

1. Click Tools >> Options
2. Click Environment >> Keyboard
3. Click the Reset button
4. Answer Yes to the warning
5. Click OK to close the window
6. Exit SSMS
7. Start SSMS again
8. Select getdate();
9. Ctrl+R now works!

MS SSIS Wiki

You know, it's sites like this that make me wish I had a page crawler, that would self-organize a website into an eBook automatically. That would be a rather efficient way, I think, to carry around part of the Internet's brain trust in an eReader...



http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/776.sql-server-integration-services-ssis.aspx#SSIS_Wiki_Pages

Teach Kids To Code C#

Pluralsight just released a training for kids to learn C#.

I'm a fan of things like this:

http://pluralsight.com/training/Courses/TableOfContents/teaching-kids-programming


Another one is ALICE:

http://www.alice.org/index.php

Eh?

Ok, so in SQL Server Management Studio 2012, there's automatic function identifying. Nice feature.

SSMS 2008 R2 had something very much the same. So I was running more than one window, containing more than one different version of SSMS. I was building something, and typed this in:

OK, I thought. try_cast isn't available in SQL 2008 R2. I must be in the wrong window. So I switched to SSMS 2012, and pasted in the same statement. Yet, I got the same error.

Eh?

Kindle Fodder

There's a book Microsoft Press put out, "introducing" SQL Server 2012.
I say that in quotes because the book is ~300 pages. Yowza!

http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/F/6/FF62CAE0-CE38-4228-9025-FBF729312698/Microsoft_Press_eBook_Introducing_Microsoft_SQL_Server_2012_PDF.pdf

Download it, put it on your e-reader, and commute away!

Foundation DB on Wired

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/03/foundationdb/

There is a great line in this article about how hard it is to break into an existing market. That is so true.

Dan Brown, author of 48 Days, says that you have to identify your USP - your Unique Selling Proposition. Said another way: why should I buy from you?

The idea of clearing out all the cobwebs in your message before you begin is something near and dear to my heart - after all, as a leader, I routinely have to mentally rehearse before doing something as "simple" as communicating good news to a client.

If I'm not selling myself at every opportunity, then my message is getting lost.

So far, all I remember of Foundation DB is "another NoSQL vendor." It'll be interesting to see how they carve out a position in the marketplace.

Yahoo vs. new phone

So I got a new phone.

And on receiving it, I found that Yahoo! Mail was available on the phone via the built in wizard.

On trying to log in, I found that Yahoo! Mail as a service option was set to PoP3 as the default, and wouldn't reflect message deletions on the server, which was, honestly, pretty maddening.

I mean really - this seems like a mature technology feature that should be enabled, fully mature, and available from a vendor as large and complex as the Yahooligan crew.

So, I was poking around for answers, and realized to get Yahoo! Mail on my Android as IMAP was going to be the answer, and that was as simple as pushing "manual setup".

Here's a URL:

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/tech-issues-bug-reports-suggestions/34730-how-setup-yahoo-imap-mail-droid.html