£50 Reward for Tinker, my black cat, missing 11/06/2013, Wrose, Bradford, phone 07740 861900

£50 Reward for Tinker, my black cat, missing 11/06/2013, Wrose, Bradford, phone 07740 861900

 

Tinker, my black cat, missing 11/06/2013, Wrose, Bradford, phone 07740 861900

 

This is my happy place

 

 

 

 

This is my idea of bliss. My happy place. No angst. No stress.

I sit in here and the world passes by unnoticed. Economies may crash, governments fall, JLS split up (thank God) but here I am insulated from it all.

 

 

New job

Blessed relief.. at last I am enjoying a week off after working as part of a team on a data migration and rollout of Microsoft Dynamics AX for Insight UK.

I personally clocked up ninety two hours of overtime during two weeks of being “on call” as the only DBA in UK due to the rollout falling on my boss’s prebooked (and well deserved) holiday.

For over two years I have been spending three hours a day commuting on Yorkshire’s congested motorways with all the attendant stress and escalating fuel costs.

However, from next week I  start working locally for the Mitchell Farrar Group as “Lead SQL Developer/Administrator and Business Intelligence Analyst”.

Whilst I know this will be challenging I am very much looking forward to it – just after the break, that’s all!

There’s a little surprise booked for my wife:  dinner, wine, bed and breakfast in the “Chocolate Room” at The Wensleydale Heifer which is a fine boutique hotel and restaurant in the Yorkshire Dales.

Keith – look here !

Bloody smartphone

Bloody smartphone uploads photos immediately! Must disable that asap

Smartphone

Succumbed to a Galaxy s 2 smartphone. However did I cope without one?

Visual Studio 2008 installation alongside Visual Studio 2005

JohnnyReaction back from the pub

This was hell; it repeatedly failed for no obvious reason and the error messages were not very helpful.

After much hair pulling and gnashing of teeth, my solution was to uninstall the following manually in this order (Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs):

1. MS Office (yes, I know!)
2. SQL 2008 MS Visual Studio Shell
3. MS Visual Project Aggregator2 (see 1 above)
4. MS Document Explorer 2008
5. MS Report Viewer Redistributable 2008 SP1
6. MS SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 ENU
7. MS SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Query Tools ENU
8.  MS SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1
9. MS.NET Framework 3.5 SP1

Then I ran a tool called MS  Visual Studio Uninstall Betas, this file is called vs_uninst_betas.exe, currently available at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=47598

Then the VS Studio 2008 install just worked, like it should have done in the first place.

Why can’t Microsoft have an installation routine which optionally removes any blockages first?

You now have Bill Gates’ permission to reinstall any software you still need from the list above.

Crumbs!

It’s 3 o’clock in the morning and I have to be at my desk 50 miles away at 9.