Last night I had the privilege of being a guest speaker at a local university. I spoke about blogging and using Word 2007 to publish your posts. Not my preference as a blog tool, but if you’re just getting started, have Word already, it’s available to you.

Since I couldn’t make it to the early class where they were covering Word 2007, I spoke on the night they covered Access 2007. I ended up hanging around through the entire class to get a little introduction and overview of the power of Microsoft Access 2007.
I’ve been working with SQL databases and a …read more

I’m in SQL just about every day of the week. Supporting multiple clients with multiple SQL servers in operation, we’re regularly working on databases. Part of that process is to backup and restore databases on our local machines for development.

One of the annoying items about SQL for me is that it wants to bury your database files deep within the Windows program folder for your SQL install. I really don’t want to dig down 7 levels of folder structure to get to my files. I can see how that might be handy and serve as a layer of protection, but …read more