A free marketing tool to help you track your goals, a site to let you know if someone's stolen your Web images and a place where everything costs you $5.
A common issue I've run into while helping with SQL Server Failover Cluster (FCI) installations is the failure of the Network Name. In the following post I'll discuss a bit of background, the common root cause, and how to resolve it.
Countless happy developers. One award-winning bundle.The SQL Developer Bundle can transform the way you and your team work, aiding collaboration, efficiency, and consistency. Download your free trial now.
<b>Serverwatch:</b> "Our plan was to build a private cloud, for free, using open source operating systems and virtualization. Even with no money, we still had projects on the table that had to be done. We called our experiment, 'Nebulous,' named after the cloud. The end result was better than we had imagined."
SSAS Maestro, SQL Server MVP and Business Intelligence Architect Bill Pearson introduces three “major players” within the MDX “relative” functions. These basic, but highly employed, functions include the .CurrentMember, .PrevMember and .NextMember functions.
Check SQL Server performance at a glanceWe consulted 1000 SQL Server professionals to make SQL Monitor’s UI as clear as possible. Start monitoring with a free trial.
Change Data Capture (CDC) records DML operations performed on SQL tables and makes records available with information regarding what changed and when the change happened in a simple way.
Compare and sync databases with SQL Compare“SQL Compare is fast, extremely easy to use, full-featured and affordable. I wouldn't bother messing around with anything else.” Adam Machanic, SQL Server MVP. Download a 14-day free trial.
ProBlogger can help you build your personal brand, plus a look at a free online classifieds site and the place to go when you need to know how stuff works.
ProBlogger can help you build your personal brand, plus a look at a free online classifieds site and the place to go when you need to know how stuff works.
<b>Diary Of An x264 Developer:</b> "Back in my original post about Internet video, I made some initial comments on the hope that VP8 would solve the problems of web video by providing a supposed patent-free video format with significantly better compression than the current options of Theora and Dirac."
Planning on patching my SQL Servers to the latest service pack, but not sure how to complete this for a environment that is using database mirroring? In this tip, will outline the environment and then walk through the process of patching mirrored servers.
New! SQL Monitor 3.0
Red Gate's multi-server performance monitoring and alerting tool gets results from Day One.Simple to install and easy to use – download a free trial today.
In a perfect world everyone has the right backups to be able to recover within the downtime and data-loss service level agreements when accidental data loss or corruption occurs. Unfortunately we don’t live in a perfect world and so many people find that they don’t have the backups they need to recover when faced with corruption.
What are your servers really trying to tell you?
Find out with new SQL Monitor 3.0, an easy-to-use tool built for no-nonsense database professionals.For effortless insights into SQL Server, download a free trial today.
CrazyEgg handles Web analytics colorfully, plus a site for downloading free books and a way to time presentations -- and anything else -- down to the second.
<b>LinuxPlanet: </b>"Whether you're wanting to give away or charge your visitors for the wireless Internet, you should find something that will work. The best part is that most of these solutions are free -- you don't have to spends hundreds on a off-the-shelf hotspot gateway."
DotNetNuke 5.4 is fully compatible with ASP.NET 4.0. The leading open source Web Content Management Platform for ASP.NET powers over 500,000 production sites worldwide. Download DotNetNuke for free now!
I need advice about my website which is hosted in Google Apps (free plan).
Currently I use a domain name called "A" and have already added another domain name called "A+" as a secondary domain in my Google Apps account. I set my email accounts with this "A" and "A+" domain name.
How do I set the domain name "A" so when my web visitor accesses it, it will automatically forward to the "A+" website? Will my emails still work properly without any problem?
Two of the best internet marketing tools that you can get a hold of today is a keyword tool, and a search engine. Thankfully, both are free. A keyword tool that you might like to use is the excellent Google keyword tool which the search engine giant provides to anyone who wants to use it.
There are several reliable indications, using SQL Queries, of what is causing SQL Server performance problems. Some of these are fairly obvious, but others aren't. Grant shows how you can get clues from any SQL Server as to the cause of stress.
Schedule Azure backupsRed Gate’s Cloud Services makes it simple to create and schedule backups of your SQL Azure databases to Azure blob storage or Amazon S3. Try it for free today.
Are you a fan of YouTube? If you take delight in watching free videos online, regarding a number of individual genres, you may well be a huge fan of YouTube. Although many internet users look at vide... [Author: Charles McDuffie - Computers and Internet - April 10, 2010]
Come join in the SQL Relay in 2013, attending a user group the week of Nov 11, 2013 in the UK. There are some amazing speakers, so be sure to register and attend.
Optimize SQL Server performance“With SQL Monitor, we can be proactive in our optimization process, instead of waiting until a customer reports a problem,” John Trumbul, Sr. Software Engineer. Optimize your servers with a free trial.
I need to try and find all SQL Servers, not just the ones in my domain. We know there are a couple of appliances that are potentially running SQL Server and we want to see them, too. What can I use to do this?
Schedule Azure backupsRed Gate’s Cloud Services makes it simple to create and schedule backups of your SQL Azure databases to Azure blob storage or Amazon S3. Try it for free today.
If you have missed the news, you can sign up for 2010 launch of Microsoft products here. This is a free event and only lasts one day. They will cover Sharepoint, VS, SQL and Office 2010. If you have any more questions, then read the FAQ.
Learn how you can get alerts when you centralize the Event log. This is part 2 of the previous article "How to centralize your SQL Server Event Logs."
What are your servers really trying to tell you?
Find out with new SQL Monitor 3.0, an easy-to-use tool built for no-nonsense database professionals.For effortless insights into SQL Server, download a free trial today.
<b>Lifehacker:</b> "XBMC is a fantastic and free cross-platform media center application we're nuts for. If you've wanted to start using it or just wanted to customize the XBMC installation you're already running, this guide will walk you through everything, from installation to total customization."
In this workbench, Robyn Page provides a gentle introduction to the use of dates in SQL Server. In this new version of her article, it is brought up to date with the newer Datetime features in SQL Server 2005 and 2008.
Calling all Exceptional DBAs...Enter the awards now for your chance to become 2010’s Exceptional DBA and don’t forget to download your free copy of Brad McGehee’s Day-to-Day DBA Best Practices poster. Nominate now.
I want to test deployment of a Windows application and a virtual PC seems the easiest method (I could be wrong, feel free to comment, but the question still stands). Courtesy my Windows 7 I have Virtual PC, and I seem to recall way back in XP I could download a pre-made image for Virtual PC 200x(7?) and use that without having to install from media.
Are there any similar images for developers for Virtual PC?
I need to write a program that generates/validates license for users of my application.
The application has a number of features each of which can be purchased by the user. Also each feature can be enabled in trial mode. Meaning only for a specified duration of time.
Before I actually try to write the code myself, I'm wondering if there are any free/commercial programs similar to what I'm looking for.