Read/Write Excel data using OleDb

I haven’t worked with Excel much since my early days of writing macros using VBA. That’s when I got my first taste of programming - I’ve been hooked ever since. But that was 8 years ago, and since then the only thing I do with Excel is use it to send »

Open SQL 2008 Management Studio from Run... command

Since SQL 2005 was first released I have always opened it from the run command in the start menu by typing “sqlwb” after hitting the Windows+R shortcut (Run… command). Why? Because no matter where I am it’s the quickest way to open SSMS without using »