Last week I was asked by my boss that how do we know that if production server has PAE enabled ?? Since we are using Windows Server 2003 x86 with about 16Gb Ram, we’ve always assumed that we have it enabled because in task manager we can find that OS actually “see” all 16Gb ram.
Solving MsiGetProductInfo failed to retrieve ProductVersion for package with Product Code = ‘{8BDD006D-D5F0-4AAA-BA13-65995063EC44}’. Error code: 1608
Today I got call from one of my friend for help in installing SQL Server 2008 R2. Apparently, he somehow cancelled the installation at very beginning of process for some reason and then every single attempt to install it again failed with really weird error. To resolve this problem, we removed registry entries leftover, removed
Simple Backup Solution for SQL Server Express
So last week I was asked by one of our developers, if I can help them in setting up some sort of automated backup system which actually takes backup of database to a shared network drive at given time and also we need to retain past X day’s (or 3 day’s) backup copy just in
Task history for Windows Scheduled Tasks !!
Though user’s workstations are usually upgraded with time, but generally servers are not so lucky. I guess they are last in the row (if the ever consider to be upgrade worthy), so if you are somehow required to work on these systems then it certainly gives you feel of old age computing (at least its
Integrating Silverlight in Web Site
I should say I work for really great company. And it is not just because I work there but it is because of their internal user group !! Yes, we have an internal user group and we regularly do meeting where employees do presentation on current / new technologies. Some technologies which we can use
Microsoft DreamSpark … supporting students
I think when we are student, we always try to find ways to save money so we can spend more in weekends … but on the other end we are always required to be on edge with tools and technologies. Hence sometimes we end up paying for tools that we really need for study just
SQL Agent Error : Unable to start JobManager thread for job XXXX
This week, we had really really strange error in one of our production databases. We had few jobs running internally (SQL Agent) and externally (Windows Scheduler) for usual data fetching and feeding. But yesterday, we got notification from our watchdog application (which basically monitors our system/job status) start sending us alert messages that jobs are