Database corruption can be difficult to detect and sometimes it is very possible that you might not even notice it until you run DBCC command on your database to check logical and physical consistency of that database. It is very common practice to run DBCC CHECKDB without any additional options at regular intervals to make
Creating custom “Prerequisites” for installation
If you have ever installed any software in your machine, you know what I am talking about. A textbook meaning of Prerequisite is “A thing required as a prior condition for something else to happen” It case of software it usually means that to run some piece of software it need to have something else
Installation Project in Visual Studio … Installer 101
During past couple of weeks I was greatly involved in process of creating MSIs for our new products. The ultimate goal was (still is) to improve overall installation experience of customers. During this time I mainly tinkered with one the project type in VS which I had never ever used before, that was “Visual Studio
Sample data in WordPress … and beginning of new quest
Recently, I got interested in WordPress theme designing. Actually I’ve been using WordPress now over 2 years and I’ve always wanted to create my own theme for my blog. Honestly I don’t have what they call … a designer’s eye … but still I wanted to try. I have been exposed from web designing using
Setting up Email Subscriptions in SSRS
One of many things that I liked very much for SSRS over Crystal Reports is “Report Subscription”. At work we use Crystal Reports as our primary reporting system. And to provide scheduled report deliveries via email we have designed our own little .NET application that allows users to create schedule and manage automated report deliveries
Setting up SMTP server in Windows .. to use Gmail
Email notification is one of the most common method to provide update to users for various system events be it task completion/failures, system issues, reports etc. I have to use email notification time to time for all of those items. Once biggest complain in windows for emails is it doesn’t allow you to use basic
Accessing XAMPP MySQL database remotely + locally
This weekend, I was playing around with XAMPP which I am thinking to use for my quest to become familiar with WordPress development. For those who don’t know what the hack is XAMPP, it is cousin of WAMP and it basically provides development environment for PHP based applications (e.g. WordPress). It is basically combo package