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
Use of SYSPREP to duplicate windows image with new SIDs
From past some time I am trying to create windows domain in home computer with bunch of VMs using Windows Server 2008 R2 for “educational” purposes … my ultimate goal was to setup clustered windows system and have SQL Server in that environment. I want to lean about how SQL Server behaves in clustered systems
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
SQL Saturday # 184
One of my favorite event for which I always had to travel just too far .. either at NY or at MA for past few years … but this year CT is going to have it’s very own SQL Saturday. For anyone who have not heard about this great event then think of it as
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
The wiser we get ….. an IT example ?
Few days back I changed password of one of my email accounts in Gmail and I got this notification in email. Now funny thing is this email is in same account of which I had changed password !! I can understand the good intensions (!!) of great G but consider a scenario where this account