I'm American, and I very rarely use emoticons in business emails. Very occasionally I will throw a smiley at the end of an email to a co-worker if our email thread has taken a turn for the casual. Like Carnival Boy, my emails can seem harsh or critical when I don't mean them to be and I try to soften them with pleasantries in the greeting and conclusion. I tend to use (but not overuse) the exclamation point as my emoticon; "Can you do this thing for me? Thank you!" seems less cranky to me than, "Can you do this thing for me? Thanks." I do use emoticons when I'm IMing or texting co-workers, but never clients or partners.

Does anyone have recommendations for a good SQL client for Mac? I'm looking for a light-weight tool to run queries and manipulate data; I don't need the full server management functionality. Is anyone using something they love?

Try setting the execution policy (set-executionpolicy unrestricted) then run get-executionpolicy to confirm that it is set to unrestricted.

If that doesn't work, exit out of PowerShell and then re-open with Run as Administrator (right click on the PowerShell application icon and choose Run as Administrator).

Good luck, @g.jacobse. Let us know how it goes.