Lack of practice makes imperfect

Posted by: mikes web log, on 28 Oct 2008 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

Apparently it's been too long since I've played with SQL Server databases. I say this because I made a boneheaded mistake today that obliged me to spend some quality time in the debugger. Someone asked me whether I could convert the good ol' cascading drop-down example from using an Access database to using SQL Server. My first reaction is "C'mon, how hard can it be? You just swap data sources." This is like a teenager in a horror film asking "Hey, I wonder what's in the basement?" Cue the ominous...

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