Bing in the wild..

Following on from some posts that Ian Moulster did showing Bing stickers on different vehicles, and the aquasition of some Bing swag imported especially for NxtGenUG from the US.

Some of you may know that NxtGenUG holds some of its meetings at Coventry Flying School, and some of you may know that I have an interest in flying. So, trying to combine these two passions, I ventured into the hanger and took these pictures..

Finally, I spotted the sit on lawn mower in the corner of the hanger. On closer inspection, and on lifting the bonnet, I found this..

Learn something new every day

One of the Tech Support guys in the office had the need to set a date in a SQL 2008 database record to null. Not knowing TSQL, he used SQL Management Studio edit view to type in 'NULL' into the date field.

Watching him as he typed, I was about to say something deep and meaningful about strings into date fields, and that he should use ctrl-0 instead, but before I could, he had tabbed out of the field and it was accepted as a null value!

I didnt know you could do that. In fact I'm convinced that never used to be the case in SQL 2005 Management Studio.

Thanks Chris!