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Originally posted by doodab View Postgvim
cygwin
WinSCP
Putty
Plus eclipse or springsource tool suite as I am (mostly) doing Java these days.
MinGW cross compiler for Linux build environment | MinGW
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Originally posted by 2BIT View Postright, gotcha.
PuTTY gets mentioned a lot and I may have to work with unix boxes in the future so it's worth a look
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One tool I just love is SQL Effects Clarity (may now be called SQL Accord) which is totally free in the CE edition:
SQL Effects Software
Allows for easy and quick database comparison (structure, functions, stored procs, views etc) which I find invaluable when working with databases from different release versions or test environments, or for checking database update scripts are working as expected.
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Originally posted by Ardesco View PostI use Pietty:
PieTTY (pputty): piaip's reimplementation of PuTTY
Just like putty but allows you to make the windows transparent which I find very useful so that I can see what's going on in the background as I fiddle about in a terminal. Downloading Zog to give it a go now
Does transparency, doesn't do proper full-screen, only thing I've found, not an issue for me but the puttyheads at work disrespect ZOC cos of it...
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I use Pietty:
PieTTY (pputty): piaip's reimplementation of PuTTY
Just like putty but allows you to make the windows transparent which I find very useful so that I can see what's going on in the background as I fiddle about in a terminal. Downloading Zog to give it a go now
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Originally posted by Spacecadet View PostMicrosoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer Edition - Complete package - 1 user - DVD - Win - English - 32/64-bit: Amazon.co.uk: Software
It's £50 on amazon and includes all the SSRS/AS/IS development tools, infact seeing as how the developer edition is actually a re-badged enterprise edition it includes everything!!
(Which can be bad when you forget the client is using standard and you developed a solution which needs enterprise features)
this is a consideration, I do think though that my kind of dev probably isn't enterprisey (hate that word!) enough to be utilising the enterprise parts - but definitely worth baring in mind!
cheers
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Originally posted by 2BIT View PostYou are right about SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer Edition though, think its only $50 so well worth it, would like to get the SSIS/SSAS stuff for SQL/Visual studio too but again its about getting the dev versions for cheap.
It's £50 on amazon and includes all the SSRS/AS/IS development tools, infact seeing as how the developer edition is actually a re-badged enterprise edition it includes everything!!
(Which can be bad when you forget the client is using standard and you developed a solution which needs enterprise features)
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Originally posted by Spacecadet View PostNice, what spec?
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Dual Core Mobile Processor i7-640M (2.80GHz) 4MB Cache
Memory (RAM) 4GB SAMSUNG 1333MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (2 x 2GB)
Graphics Card nVIDIA® GeForce® GT 425M - 1GB DDR3 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
Memory - 1st Hard Disk 500GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD5000BEKT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (7200 rpm)
Originally posted by Spacecadet View PostIf you're serious about the Microsoft BI stack then you really need:
Windows 7
Office 2010
SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer Edition
The way you're going you seem to want to become obsolete.
VMWare is very handy for quickly creating dev environments
You are right about SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer Edition though, think its only $50 so well worth it, would like to get the SSIS/SSAS stuff for SQL/Visual studio too but again its about getting the dev versions for cheap.
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Originally posted by 2BIT View Postright, gotcha.
PuTTY gets mentioned a lot and I may have to work with unix boxes in the future so it's worth a look
ZOC - SSH Client (Secure Shell), SSH2 Client, Telnet Client for Windows and Mac OS X
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Originally posted by 2BIT View PostJust bought me a nice new laptop purely for work
Originally posted by 2BIT View PostWin XP Pro 32-bit
Office 2003
SQL Server 2008 express
Windows 7
Office 2010
SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer Edition
The way you're going you seem to want to become obsolete.
VMWare is very handy for quickly creating dev environments
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Originally posted by k2p2 View PostSQL Developer is free and does most of what Toad does.
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