Larry Gonick: Geek of the Week
by Richard Morris | 08 January 2009
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Cartoonist, mathematician, historian and environmentalist. Larry Gonick proved that learning could be fun by producing a wide range of educational books, all done as comic strips. Many present-day geeks attribute the awakening of their enthusiasm for science to coming across one of Larry's books.
Build Your Own Virtualized Test Lab
by Desmond Lee | 05 January 2009
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Desmon explains the fundamentals of building a test lab for Windows servers and Enterprise applications from scratch using Hyper-V on a supported x64 machine. He even suggests tips and tricks to help make the journey smoother.
Rendering Hierarchical Data with the Treeview
by Ion Freeman | 05 January 2009
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It sometimes happens that Web Server controls that visualize data don't quite fit with the way that the data is actually held in the application. This shouldn't be an obstacle, as Ion Freeman points out. To prove his point, he shows how to use Nested Sets with Treeview.
Exchange: Recovery Storage Groups
by Jaap Wesselius | 06 January 2009
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It can happen at any time: You get a request, as Admin, from your company, to provide the contents of somebody's mailbox from a backup set as part of an investigation. The Recovery Storage Group is usually the easiest way to do this. It may either mean using the Exchange Management Console or the Exchange Management Shell. Jaap explains all.
Understanding Full-Text Indexing in SQL Server
by Robert Sheldon | 29 December 2008
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Microsoft has quietly been improving full-text indexing in SQL Server. It is time to take a good look at what it offers. Who better to give us that look than Robert Sheldon, in the first of a series.
A SysAdmin's Guide to Change Management
by Matt Simmons | 06 January 2009
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In the first in a series of monthly articles, ‘Confessions of a Sys Admin’, Matt describes the issues involved in Change Management, and gives a simple guide.
Protection for the Data Journey
by Johnm | 01 January 2009
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The DBA cannot be sure that the sensitive data that is flowing to the database has been sufficiently protected. If sensitive data is compromised while it is in storage there is no doubt that the DBA will be the first questioned.
SQL Server 2008: Performance Data Collector
by Brad McGehee | 29 December 2008
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With Performance Data Collector in SQL Server 2008, you can now store performance data from a number of SQL Servers in one central location. This data is collected by a collection set on each server and stored in a shareable management data warehouse (MDW). Reports can be generated from this data using the built-in reports or generating your own with reporting Services. Brad McGehee explains more.
Publishing to the multitude.
by Phil Factor | 21 December 2008
Phil was contentedly re-reading Exodus, when it suddenly struck him that Moses didn't have the sort of difficulty that the Book editors in the IT industry generally have with their technical authors nowadays:
Bar-Poo for DBAs and Developers
by Tony Davis | 19 December 2008
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DBAs and Developers seem to live in parallel universes. If and when they talk to each other, the air is often thick with misunderstanding. It seems that what we have here is a deep-seated communication problem. Although the two groups share a common technical language, they use terms slightly differently.