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February #Meme15 – LinkedIn

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Creating Your Own Certificates

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Spruced up query_io_reader.rb

I built a small ruby program a while back to help with two things:
 

Quickly identify what tables have the highest IO in a particular query
Learn a new language (Ruby)

 
The...

Spruced up query_io_reader.rb

 I built a small ruby program a while back to help with two things:

1. Quickly identify what tables have the highest IO in a particular
...

Spruced up query_io_reader.rb

I built a small ruby program a while back to help with two things:
 
Quickly identify what tables have the highest...

PowerPivot and Market Research

This past Tuesday, February 14, I was invited to discuss how technology can be used to help analyze data for...

Automate CPU-Z Capture to Check for Throttled Processors

Several professionals have posted about checking whether or not your processors are running at full speed by using CPU-Z. Some recommendations are to check your servers every couple of...

Automate CPU-Z Capture to Check for Throttled Processors

Severalprofessionalshaveposted about checking whether or not your processors are running at full speed by using CPU-Z. Some recommendations are to...

Blogging: Controlling SPAM in Orchard CMS with OpenCaptcha

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