After demise of my favorite RSS Synching Service … Google Reader back in July 2013, I was little lost in quest for ultimate alternative since like many IT guys, I don’t stick to just one device and read my feed always from there. Plus me “experimenting” on different things on same system means loosing all
Category: Tips
Remotely execute file on another machine
As usual, I was searching something over internet and going through random crap to look for something (I don’t remember now what was that) and I somehow found that there is really great utility available in good ol’ Sysinternals Suite which literally allows user to remotely execute any application on another machine !! That utility
SVN checkout using BATCH and PowerShell
Few days back I was working on a script to automate project builds. And at one step I was required to checkout code from source control and build the application. Since everything was done using a single script there was no way I could prompt to user GUI because in this case it was just
How to ruin a very good site reputation !
I know that in recent times, I am kind of feeling more sensitive towards users experience in general, weather it is @ customer support for any item or @ email system … or this time @ one of my favorite download site (at least it used to be but not anymore). For years I have
Policy Based Management in SQL Server
This great feature was introduced in SQL Server 2008 and since then it has been considered as one of “standard” method to administer database proactively. As the name suggests, it allows DBAs to create various policies to enforce certain rules to single database, to group of databases or to whole server… for example default database
Error Deploy01234: The target database schema provider could not be determined. Deployment cannot continue.
This was the error that I was getting when i was trying to deploy our database project to one of our test system in a batch script. To me it was a bit surprise because I had done same process many times in past and it has worked just fine. But today I spent hefty
Database Snapshots … The Good, Bad and Ugly
In SQL Server 2005 MSFT introduced very new feature … Database Snapshots … which is basically a read-only view of database at the time when snapshot was taken. Just as a side note…even at the time this feature was introduced in SQL Server, other age old DBMSes like Oracle and DB2 were already offering similar