Choose specific folders to sync with SkyDrive

Every time you run the SkyDrive Client on your device, a laptop in my case, all your files from the cloud are downloaded to...

Ybor City Farmers Market, Dogs, Kids, and Observations

Last weekend I was in Tampa for SQLSaturday #168 and made sure to make some time for family. The most...

Can’t access Operations or Applications tabs from Central Admin WSS 3.0 SP 2

Hey Friends,
Sometime when we try to access central administration and certain tabs like operation and Application management we face issues....

Reducing the size of the distribution database & improving transactional replication performance: Part 2

The impact of having data sitting in the distribution database that doesn’t need to be there can be significant.  The...

Time Pass With Transaction Log - Part 4 DDL

In this article,  We are going to CREATE/ ALTER/ DROP a table and observe transaction log records created for those DDL statements.
Our...

Every ebook from Apress for $15

Query Performance Tuning. Grant Fritchey. $15. If this doesn’t excite you, nothing will. Apress is offering every e-book for just $15...

Explore file physical structure - IAM

1. Create sample db

use master
go
CREATE DATABASE [test] ON  PRIMARY
( NAME = N'test', FILENAME = N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\master\test.mdf' , SIZE = 2048KB , FILEGROWTH = 1024KB...

Getting Nexus 7 Connected To Windows 7

Have trouble getting your new Nexus 7 connected to Windows so you can move some media files over?
Install the drivers...

IIS Express Quickie Command-line

This is a reminder to my future self for how to quickly start IIS Express from the command-line on 64-bit...

Reblog: November 16 to November 22

Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post.  The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...