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SO Screen Challenge Results

In an earlier article, I challenged my readers to come up with the widest variety of solutions to a problem I posed, and discuss what I thought was the best solution. I apologize that it took me so long to get back to this, but I have been ridiculously busy lately. Anyway, on [...]

Consona Connect 2009 is Cancelled.

Since not everyone who reads this blog is on M2M’s email distribution list, I thought I would share this with you. Last week I received an e-mail which was as follows:

Dear David,

As a result of speaking with many customers regarding their current
budget limitations, we regret to announce our decision to cancel this
year’s customer [...]

Anybody Using Qlickview?

Dashboards are a hot topic these days and I need to investigate the available options. I had a Qlickview demonstration in person, but I’d like to talk to any of you who are using it.

So, are any of you folks using it? Would you mind telling me your opinions of the product?

Dinner with a Ninja

I went home to Michigan over the Memorial Day Weekend. While I was there I had dinner with a SQL Ninja who I’ve mentioned before, Brent Ozar.

I met him almost exactly a year ago when I came across his blog. He had an excellent article on Perfmon, and I [...]

Captcha if You Can

I follow a lot of forums, blogs, and other sites to further my SQL knowledge. We’ve all run into CAPTCHA over the years. The idea of course is that they are easily solved by humans, yet difficult or impossible for computers to solve.

However, it seems like it’s becoming more and more [...]

Permissions Oddity with the Customer Service Request Screen (SYCSL)

Yesterday I got a request from management to give full permissions to the SYCSL screen to one of my users. I of course complied, but then got a call the manager asking why the user did not have permission to change the status of the requests. I responded that she did and asked [...]

Pssst…. Over Here… (Auto Login)

There are a couple of ways to achieve automatic login of Made2Manage. However, I first want to say that I think this is a bad idea and I don’t allow this at my company for security reasons.

The simplest method is to make your M2M user name match your active directory user name. [...]