Database diagram support objects cannot be installed because this database does not have a valid owner

TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
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Database diagram support objects cannot be installed because this database does not have a valid owner.  To continue, first use the Files page of the Database Properties dialog box or the ALTER AUTHORIZATION statement to set the database owner to a valid login, then add the database diagram support objects.

This error happened after an upgrade, the owner was already set as sa, so the solution was to change ownership into another login, then return it to sa.

Tip: Opening Internet Properties without opening Internet Explorer

Although the Internet Options dialogue box appears as a implicit component within the Internet Explorer, it can be called separately without the need even to open the browser. This is very helpful especially if you are using a laptop like me, and within the office you need to enable  the proxy settings and to disable it every time you are out of the office. Moreover, knowing that most other applications read from that place for the proxy settings, it appears to me as a very handy shortcut.

A lot more to know about RTL [Reference to external article]

Ahmed Alfy has developed a very neat article talking about localizing the user interface for web applications in general.

RTL (Right to Left) refers to the direction change for some languages which is required as one of the basic steps for localizing these applications.

Let's Talk About RTL

Enjoy!

KPIs for Professional Services Organizations [reference to external article]

I just came into an article proposing the KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) the author promote them as essential for PSOs (Professional Services Organizations), and I felt like sharing it since I found it very neat and away of many jargon complications:

http://spiresearch.com/spiglass/2013/10/what-are-the-essential-kpis-for-professional-services-organizations/

Thanks Jeanne Urich!

Store and retrieve binary files (blob) into\from MS SQL server using VB6

The following thread is shared by a colleague who has spent some hard time to find out what he was looking after. His issue was that all the other links he reached were holding misleading titles, so he asked me to share this one with the above title.  

http://forums.devshed.com/firebird-sql-development-61/blob-field-vb6-0-a-403493.html

Thanks Dinos and the thread contributors for your community input!

Please advise or Please advice

I am pretty sure that this is already clear for native English speakers, and any English beginner learner that:
Advice (Noun) - Advise (Verb)

So the correct form should be: Please advise.

However, this time what is confusing me is MS Outlook! It do not like both!!!

Microsoft Outlook 2013 (15.0.4615.1000) 32-bit

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Seasons for the year

During meetings discusing projects, it happens that when we start scheduling the tasks, a meeting member proposes switch a task from the next month August into autumn...! But at which month does autumn starts?!

When I searched I found that for the northern hemisphere, the seasons of the year are:


Winter:   December, January, February 

Spring:    March, April, May

Summer: June, July, August

Autumn:  September, October, Novemebr