Archive for March, 2005
Thursday, March 24th, 2005
A Contact Us link on *Every Web Page*??
Oh, the gall!
The automated response to my earlier message from TechRepublic’s contact page had this to say:
If you need more immediate information or assistance, please review our
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s) section provided on our Contact Us page,
[URL], found at the bottom of every TechRepublic
Web page.
Is it really? At the bottom of every web page? [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Ain't Perfect, Rants and Criticism by jmiller
Thursday, March 24th, 2005
TechRepublic fails to unsubscribe
Here’s a quick excerpt of the feedback message that I posted to TechRepublic after their unsubscribe process failed about 10 times:
I have tried about 8-10 times to unsubscribe from your mailings, but each time, I still receive mail. I even tried changing my email on my account to a special alias on my server [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Rants and Criticism by jmiller
Friday, March 4th, 2005
SQL Server Command-Line Utilities
I found an article that describes several command-line utilities that can automate SQL Server tasks.
These commands include:
isql
osql
bcp - bulk data copy
dtsrun
dtswiz
itwiz - Index Tuning Wizard
We use a couple of these commands at my current client as part of our build/migration process.
