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Fedora 13 on Toshiba A505-S6986

Posted by steve on May 28, 2010 at 12:07 pm

Installed this operating system – click here for fedora 13 – on a 2nd partition on my laptop. I installed the full x64 DVD iso version. Needed to get the wireless card working, this is what l did. My first partition already has Windows 7 installed. Both operating systems co-exist perfectly. Make sure you install [...]

OpenOffice…

Posted by ms24503 on March 25, 2010 at 6:27 am

I’ve been looking for a “free” alternative to Microsoft Office 2007 for general work on my laptop. I decided to try out OpenOffice which l know is installed on my Ubuntu linux partition. Theres a windows version which installs pretty quickly and with no problems on Windows 7 – l use Windows 7 64bit Home [...]

Installing Sharepoint 2010 Beta..

Posted by ms24503 on February 19, 2010 at 2:56 pm

Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 beta software requires the following: Application server role, web server IIS Role SQL Server 2008 native client Microsoft “Geneva” framework runtime Microsoft Chart Controls for Microsoft Framework 3.5 Microsoft Filter Pack 2.0 SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services ADOCMD.NET I attempted to install this on a development Windows 2008 R2 server, which already [...]

Problems removing a SQL2005 replication publication and subscription

Posted by ms24503 on February 11, 2010 at 5:11 pm

Issue: use [MyDB] exec sp_dropsubscription @publication = N’pbMyDBSnapshotPull’, @subscriber = N’YYY\MyDBX’, @destination_db = N’MyDB’, @article = N’all’ GO Result Msg 20032, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_MSdrop_subscription, Line 85 ‘YYY\MyDBMOBILE’ is not defined as a Subscriber for ‘YYY\MYDBINSTANCE’. Msg 14070, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_MSrepl_changesubstatus, Line 1210 Could not update the distribution database subscription [...]

Preventing DNS hijacking by your ISP…

Posted by ms24503 on January 24, 2010 at 12:19 pm

Here is a link and interesting discuss on doing this if you use comcast. Here is a direct link to their solution webpage. Here is the link to OpenDNS.  I’ve always found it annoying when you get redirected to a comcast search control+ad page, or a bing.com page when you mistype a url. This might [...]

Transferring logins and passwords between SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008

Posted by ms24503 on January 15, 2010 at 12:17 pm

This link is very useful and details how to transfer the logins and the passwords between instances of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and Microsoft SQL Server 2008, on different servers. – Microsoft Knowledge Base: #246133

Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 15401

Posted by ms24503 on January 15, 2010 at 12:12 pm

Got this error a lot when trying to add NT user accounts on a SQL Server 2008 installation that was connected to a Windows 2008R2 server running Active Directory 2008 at Windows 2000 functional level.  Same error message appeared when troubleshooting this from a SQL Server 2005 instance in the same server environment. You’ll keep [...]

Azure sample database setup….

Posted by steve on December 29, 2009 at 11:57 am

Notes on setting up the sample database – adventureworks [click here] for Microsoft’s cloud computing sql server called Azure: you need an account – get one from sql.azure.com – it takes some time for your access information to arrive by email. download the sample database using link above extract/unzip to a known location make sure [...]

Business Intelligence w/SQL 2008

Posted by ms24503 on December 27, 2009 at 2:43 pm

Currently reading “Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 by Brian Larson” Interesting quotes/definitions: “Would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here?” asked Alice. “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. “I don’t much care where,” said Alice. “Then, it doesn’t matter [...]

Azure SQL….

Posted by ms24503 on December 24, 2009 at 6:21 pm

Adventure works sample databases are now available for Microsoft’s SQL Azure at codeplex – click here.



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