It looks abnoxious when as MS MVP I advocate MOF/MSF Database Designs for customers and USers but still one of our main System Databases named MSDB has columns which are related to Datetime have been kept as INT... WHo Designed this Database and WHo pruned it... I wish to meet them .. God... It wasted my extra time and Extra resources to get them casted ......

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It has been long time that I am back on my Blog... But trust me I missed it more than it might have missed me.. Okay here is a kwel finding.. For those who are confused about Guest account in SQL server Databases.. Well we need GUEST account in Master and TEMPDB ... because when when we create login that person should get authenticated at least w.r.t ......

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I was fiddling I was working on Project and suddenly this error took me to nuts ERROR :- The command is attempting to use a webpage from the site gbui://blank.htm/. You have not identified this site as a trusted site in Internet Explorer.Microsoft Project cannot display pages from untrusted sites, so we cannot execute this command. If you want to use ......

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It doesn't happen everyday that a government sets itself in a way that may well turn out to be a disaster. The recent decision by Kerala Govt. to mandate Linux in high schools is just one of them. This is in the aftermath of having banned Colas in the state. (So tell me are colas more dangerous or are cigrattes and alchol? Why not ban them instead? ......

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Found a nice article for Professionals, really liked it

http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/Litmus/tools_ezine.htm#DCDIAG%20and%20NETDIAG

 

 

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Webcasts by Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) Based on your tremendous response, we now bring you LIVE Webcasts 5 times a week. Attend these LIVE Webcasts by experts from Microsoft and get on to the edge of the steep-learning curve.Participate in the Webcast Contest during the Webcast and 2 lucky winners will win a cool Orchid Music Player. ......

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I was quite stupid with respect to network configuration and being a sure shot DBA one needs to understand what my Systems guy is doing to network and SAN .. here I found a quite useful link to Cluster w.r.t private network heartbeat connectivity and support http://support.microsoft.co... Check it out ......

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Few days back someone made a comment “what the hell you know about VISTA” .. I didn't respond much ..but smiled... Slowly I tried to navigate and gather information about Vista if not knowledge about it.... somehow I felt Comfortable enough to write some lines about it... Here I go ... SIDE TRACK :- Few days back we had three day Session ......

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Well lots of buzz in the town.. watched some kwel thoughts around and listened to some wild wind about Teched 2006. But here is my recommended list for IT pro people and particularly those who work in remote management Believe me you should start from here {Click it}.... where Teched is more than we thought about it .... Dont miss the big MVP Logo on ......

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Windows Vista Release Delayed Microsoft said today that consumer versions of its next-generation version of Windows would not hit the market until January 2007, dashing plans that it would be on PCs for sale during the 2006 end-of-year holiday season. Check out more here http://www.internetnews.com... ......

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It was packed room of some 40 Odd people in Noida and from developers to DBAs anb my 8 Hour long Seminar/Training/ Presentation for them. I have used lots of examples in that seminar worth mentioning are the last 13 examples but you can just try reading from here and hopefuly after page reads you will be on track WARNING First few pages are un formatted ......

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A very nice article and quite useful as well

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191295.aspx

 

 

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