Archive for November, 2009
Why Database Names Matter
There is a reason users shouldn’t be allowed to name their own databases. Actually, there are probably several thousand reasons. I have a new one for you–It makes my life more difficult.
Lets say you work for a company called Acme. And lets say your manufacturing people created an in-house Microsoft Access application with a SQL [...]
Rookie Mistakes: Named Instance
I hate rookie mistakes. I hate them even more when I’m the one making them.
My coworker was installing Microsoft OCS Server, and he said that he needed a SQL instance, and he told me what the instance needed to be named. Since we already had a SQL server dedicated to this project, I created a [...]