Archive for October, 2008

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Parker Dam, Quehanna Natural Area

One of the most beautiful places we’ve been to take pictures… this one is in the middle of no-where near State College, PA …the trees were amazing. I think we got them just about at their peak. Güenther was in heaven, with so much to smell! I can’t blame him… the cool air smelled [...]

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Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire

We headed out to Pennsylvania last Saturday morning… arriving in Mannheim, PA late Saturday night… stayed in one of the crappiest hotels i think we’ve ever stayed in. That night, my sister, brother-in-law and I went to a small pub called ‘Farmer’s Hope’, where i had 5 shots of Patron Silver (mmmm… nectar) and sat [...]

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Cade’s Cove, Gatlinburg, Tennessee

Melissa and I went to Gatlinburg the weekend before last, and had a really good time. Some friends of ours have a cabin out there and they let us stay there for ‘free’ … i say ‘free’ in quotes because Steve has got his money’s worth out of me in ‘free’ computer support since he [...]

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Creating CRUD Stored Procedures in SSMS

ok… now this is awesome:
http://www.ssmstoolspack.com/

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How to change the port in sql server management express (ssms)

I chased my tail around for awhile on this before finally coming across a post on google… those crazy folks at Microsoft decided that rather than using the standard IPAddress:port with a colon, they would use a comma instead! So… when you’re using SSMS to connect to a Sql Server on a non-standard port… this [...]

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