April 2006 Entries

SQL 2000 & SQL 2005 Side By Side...

I'm stumped. I've got an instance of SQL 2000 (staging\staging2000) running on a box side-by-side just fine with an instance of SQL 2005. When I'm working in Visual Studio on the staging box, it works just fine. I connect and get into the 2000 instance of the database with no problems. As soon as I move over to my laptop (same configuration), I get ... An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that...

Dang!

http://www.apple.com/macosx... I've been holding off on a Mac purchase, mostly because of money. The money issue still exists, but I think all of my other objections (No VS on a Mac) are going out the window. I've heard (read) that this thing screams