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Check these out. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1d3a4a0d-7e0c-4730-8204-e419218c1efc&displaylang=en If you are a DBA, these are pretty much money. I have seen some many custom implementations and DBA’s trying to get reports like this, and if you have SQL Server 2005 SP2, you can download that and run a SQL script and then you have these reports. They give you [...]

SQL 2005 introduced some cool "data management views" (DMV’s) that let a DBA see what is happening on their database. Previously you had to use undocumented system tables and information schemas to get the info, and a lot of the info wasn’t even available. Well recently I was doing some backup/restore stuff on a database [...]

611 from your T-Mobile phone if you are in a T-mobile coverage area. 1-800-937-8997 otherwise (roaming) :) Only reason I am blogging this is because I had a tough time finding it through Google even though it is on their contact us page (I think it should just show up in Google excerpt instead of [...]

Ok.. if you are using SSAS 2005 and using the deployment wizard (not using BIDS) – probably because you want to retain your partitions or something. But anyways, if you use it and choose the option to retain your roles, you will deploy, and no one will be able to get to your SSAS DB [...]

I will be up in St. Cloud starting tomorrow (Saturday Jan 26th) through Saturday Feb 2nd. Looking forward to seeing some old friends, seeing how the office is doing, and all that. Jeff Lee – we need to have a beer. I am at the Kelly Inn so lets meet up downtown, I probably will [...]

If you are a XBOX Live 360 Subscriber and you had issues over xmas break, get on the marketplace and download Undertow – its free, the full game. That is the gift you get for dealing with issues.. get on it! Technorati Tags: Xbox 360,Xbox,Undertow,Games,Xbox Live

So, I use Pidgin for IM. It is like Trillian, but I like it better. No webcam support. I don’t webcam really, but I wondered today what I could use to webcam if I wanted to. I found a site, tokbox that lets you do just that, through the web – cool! Anyway’s, It works [...]

So in two recent small little projects, I have needed to "time" things in code. Back in the day, it was using timespans, timers in windows forms, ticks, and just two dates and taking datediffs, getting the milliseconds or seconds, coverting to the time element you needed. Well, no longer do you have to hack [...]

If you ever wanted to remotely log memory usage (and CPU usage) of processes, you can use "tasklist" The key is, "tasklist /s"  and then the remote computer name. That along with filters you can query and log process info remotely with no more than a cmd window, or batch file in a scheduled task. [...]

I installed this extension: GooglePreview – about a month ago, pretty awesome. When you search Google (or Yahoo) it puts a little thumbnail preview up by each search result. I am so used to it by now that when I search Google without it (say  in IE for example) it just feels weird. check it [...]