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I love that SSMS is now free and available to anyone.
Any reason why Microsoft can't simply make it auto-update? It seems I'm getting updates every week. I used to update this every 3 years.
Actually: if they could just get the app to update itself instead of the "update" button sending me to a site to download the exe that I have to install manually after shutting things down. Even that would add awesomeness to something otherwise not awesome even a little bit.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Any reason why Microsoft can't simply make it auto-update?
Have you not been browsing the lounge the last few months? People just LOVE when Microsoft auto updates their software. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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SSMS now with added Windows 10.
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There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Yup.
"We think SMSS runs better on winio, so we've downgraded you to that version."
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I got my Windows 10 in a Happy Meal menu! I wasn't so happy after that 
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You're joking, but you're not wrong.
Microsoft has had a habit lately of having all of their installers change your Windows Update settings without asking you. I honestly wouldn't be surprised to find that Windows 10 had been forcibly installed after updating SSMS.
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I have SSMS installed on a few machines, and I've never seen Windows Update show an update for it, except maybe for a full-blown SQL Server service pack and minor updates. But never for SSMS itself.
Got a sample KB number?
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Quote: The setup page for this release says August due to an internal build setting. The package is in fact a hotfix for the July release.
Someone has been too lazy to rebuild.
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This update is a hotfix to fix a bug in the previous update:
Lost "Table", "Design" and "Edit Top <n> Rows" in tables context menu. | Microsoft Connect[^]
(The "Modify" and "View dependencies" menus were also AWOL.)
I'm quite pleased they managed to get the fix out so quickly. Although obviously it would have been better if the bug hadn't made it into the released version in the first place. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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..so for a tiny fix, you have to re-download the entire setup and reinstall.
Not worth it.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Not worth it.
If you've already applied the July update, and are affected by the bug, then the fix is totally worth it.
But yes, they should have shipped a smaller hotfix package.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Chris Maunder wrote: if they could just get the app to update itself instead of the "update" button sending me to a site to download the exe that I have to install manually after shutting things down
In this flow you can not state later that they installed Window 10 without your aproval 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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As much as I hate feeding this guy's ego, I do love a good quote. In response to the thread about Linus I was wandering through Wikiquotes[^] and found
Quote: I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep
It got me thinking: what are your favourite IT related quotes? The "640KB should be good enough for anyone" doesn't count: it's past the statute of limitations.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
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Hey, that one works many times. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Like many quotes, people always forget the surrounding context.
"Is it switched on?"
"Yes."
"Have you tried turning it off and on".
"Yes."
Jacquers wrote: "Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
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Thomas John Watson Sr. was the chairman and CEO of International Business Machines (IBM) and stated in 1943, "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers".
How right he was!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Yes, I expect that was true back in 1943 
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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In his defense, he meant ROOM SIZED mainframes that required $$$millions of investments, tons of air conditioning, and "operators" to "operate" the dang thing.
He was not thinking "toys" people would carry with them and continuously be distracted by 
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Check to see if it floats in salt-water. If it sinks then it was defective.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: If it sinks then it was defective.
NoNoNo.... If it floats, it's defective. If it sinks, it was good. (If the floaters were good, you'd have to keep using them...)
Truth,
James
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Take your laptop, or better still, you cell phone, and test my hypothesis.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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