When I create an application, I always ask my client to give me a sample data for testing my application. Almost all my client give it to me on excel file. To copy the data from excel to SQL server, what I always do was to create a new DTS package then connect to the server then connect to excel file...
Lots of developers write code in flash with the help of intellisense. But when coding t-sql is scripts, there is no built-in intellisense on query analyzer or SSMS. You will have to use a 3rd party tool to have intellisense on your query analyzer. But if you can't find 3rd party intellisense tool usefull...
When I'm bored at the office or home, I sleep. One rainy afternoon, when I can't find the bug on my application, I feel kinda bored but I don't want to sleep because my manager was pissed. So i went over to the next cubicle to chat with my sleepy officemate and found out that she was playing Sudoku ...
Testing is one of the "must" in software development process. Once, our client lost almost 14 million pesos in a month because of using an application that was developed in a hurry and tested only for 2 days. I feel sorry for them because i was the one who developed that application. I warned them though...