Free zip code information

Free zip code information I found online:

• http://federalgovernmentzipcodes.us/
• http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/download_data.htm

Ctrl+R doesn't work

I had the following conversation with my VM the other day:

Why can't I push Control+R (Ctrl+R) in SSMS 2012, and have my query results window go away?  

I'm on a virtual machine here, Mr. SSMS, and I really don't need to see, again, that I just accidentally selected getdate().

In order to get Management Studio to give me back my full editing window, I went in to settings and reset the keyboard layout.

Like this:

1. Click Tools >> Options
2. Click Environment >> Keyboard
3. Click the Reset button
4. Answer Yes to the warning
5. Click OK to close the window
6. Exit SSMS
7. Start SSMS again
8. Select getdate();
9. Ctrl+R now works!

MS SSIS Wiki

You know, it's sites like this that make me wish I had a page crawler, that would self-organize a website into an eBook automatically. That would be a rather efficient way, I think, to carry around part of the Internet's brain trust in an eReader...



http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/776.sql-server-integration-services-ssis.aspx#SSIS_Wiki_Pages

Teach Kids To Code C#

Pluralsight just released a training for kids to learn C#.

I'm a fan of things like this:

http://pluralsight.com/training/Courses/TableOfContents/teaching-kids-programming


Another one is ALICE:

http://www.alice.org/index.php