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Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Posted Thursday, August 30, 2007 4:06 PM

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Comments posted here are about the content posted at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/pressrelease/3216.asp

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Post #395355

Daniel Rusk

Posted Thursday, August 30, 2007 11:51 PM

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I went through the task of creating the RAAS database and making a user, but when I tried to run the RAAS client it said "There is a problem with the RAAS database. Please notify your administrator." I noticed when I installed the script that there was an error when trying to add the RAASAdmin to the Users table because of improper case. However, changing the database collation to a case-insensitive one seems to do the trick.

Post #395400

John Tannahill

Posted Saturday, September 01, 2007 3:58 PM

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Is this supposed to be freeware?? Have only had 1 spam-mail from vendor since download and responding to trial license e-mail. So not impressed with either the vendor or SQLServer Central! Is there supposed to be a full version license key or did I just not understand the original post and offer?

Post #395731

MVDBA

Posted Monday, September 03, 2007 1:48 AM

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I've followed the instructions and replied to the trial liscence email with the correct phrase in the subject line, but so far have not received a full liscence key......

MVDBA

Post #395793

Jeff Moden

Posted Monday, September 03, 2007 8:31 PM

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Rog Pike... where the hell are you now?

--Jeff Moden

"RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for "Row-By-Agonizing-Row".

First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
Stop thinking about what you want to do to a row... think, instead, of what you want to do to a column."

For better, quicker answers on T-SQL questions, click on the following...
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/

For better answers on performance questions, click on the following...
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQLServerCentral/66909/

Post #395925

Jereme Guenther

Posted Tuesday, September 04, 2007 9:14 AM

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I agree, I received a standard follow-up email but not a full key.

I did get a second piece of free "diff" software during the process which I am going to try to see if the companies software is worth anything.

Post #396138

Jereme Guenther

Posted Tuesday, September 04, 2007 9:23 AM

Right there with Babe

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Can't say as I am terribly impressed, looks like they might have forgotten to surround SQL column names with []'s. For theirs and others information, here is the error I got when trying to compare two databases in SQL2000; I had all the features checked to compare and it looks like it died on constraints:

************** Exception Text **************
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80045510): [SQL-DMO]The name '0 master ( Standard Countries )' was not found in the Tables collection. If the name is a qualified name, use [] to separate various parts of the name, and try again.
at SQLDMO.Tables.Item(Object Index, Object Owner)
at DBCompare.Module1.CompareConst()
at DBCompare.Form1.Command1_Click(Object eventSender, EventArgs eventArgs)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

Post #396145

Daniel Rusk

Posted Tuesday, September 04, 2007 9:34 AM

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I received a full key today, so the process does work.

Post #396151

MVDBA

Posted Wednesday, September 05, 2007 1:12 AM

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I agree - all of the apps i downloaded seemed to be pretty shoddy. especially periscope which i still havent managed to get to work correctly.

RAAS seems to be fairly solid, but lacks functionality -
how would i search for the history of an object if my script contains more than one object change?

if my script can contain only one object change, why can't i group scripts together in one package?,

why can't i include rollback scripts?

if a script is approved and then unaproved how can users basing their source code on approved changes be notified?

if you have to have approve priveleges to view releases (in the approve screen) then developers can't check code change history without approving code themselves...

etc etc

MVDBA

Post #396360

rudy - Doctor "X"

Posted Thursday, September 06, 2007 1:57 PM

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I hope it works ... I have waited 2 days already ...

Regards
Rudy Komacsar
Senior Database Administrator

"Ave Caesar! - Morituri te salutamus."

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