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How to get innovation in product development?

- by simonsabin

I was at Redgate last week and say plastered all over the canteen wall flip chart sheets with ideas scrawled over them. I was going to take a photo but thought it might not be allowed. I asked what it was all about and they told me that ALL the development team are going to stop working on what they are doing and do whatever they want. Whatever they want? yes So thats the whole team working on something? No, it can be individual or in groups. Having worked in product teams before I and the others...(read more)

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Will you share your SQL Server configuration?

- by Bill Graziano

I regularly visit client sites and review their SQL Server configurations. I come across all kinds of strange settings. I’ve been thinking about a way to aggregate people’s configurations and see what’s common and what’s unique. I used to do that with polls on SQLTeam.com. I think we can find out more interesting things if we look at combinations of settings in relation to size and volume. I’ve been working on an application for another project that is similar. It will be fairly easy to use that code for this. I can have something up and running in a few days – if people are interested in it. I admit that I often come up with ideas that just don’t make sense. This may be one of them. One of your biggest concerns has be how secure your data is. My solution is not to store anything identifying. The instance name and database names can both be “anonymized” and I don’t store the machine name or IP address or anything to do with logins. Some of the questions I’m curious about are: At what size database does the Enterprise Edition become prevalent? Given the total size of the databases how much RAM is common? How many people have multiple data files? At what size does that become prevalent? How common is database mirroring? Replication? Log shipping? How common is full recovery mode? At what data size does it become prevalent? I think those are all questions that are easy to answer -- with the right data. The big question is whether or not people will share their SQL Server configurations. I understand that organizations in regulated or high security environments can’t participate. But I think that leaves many, many people that can. Are you willing to share your configuration and learn about others? I have a simple sign up form here. It’s actually a mailing list signup that also captures your edition, number of servers and largest database. The list will only be used for this project. Is your SQL Server is configured correctly? Do you wonder what the next step is as your data grows? Take a second and sign up.

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Join me to register for the Summit

- by Bill Graziano

This year the Summit registration opens at 6PM on Sunday at the Seattle convention center. Last year we had a dozen people hanging out, watching the twitter feed on the big monitor and catching up. All we really needed was a bar and we’d have our own little party going. So this year I’m adding a bar. I’ve arranged for a cash bar and some stand up tables. I’m buying the first round for the first 40 or so people that come by. Come by, register and say Hi. I’d especially like to encourage first-time attendees to stop by. This is a low key way to meet some people that will be at the conference.

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How to block the ASP.NET page while ajax UpdateProgress is being displayed.

Step 1: Copy the following styles to your aspx page. <style type="text/css"> .hide { display: none; } .show { display: inherit; } .progressBackgroundFilter { position: absolute; top: 0px; bottom: 0px; left: 0px; right: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0; margin: 0; background-color: #000; filter: alpha(opacity=50); opacity: 0.5; z-index: 1000; } .processMessage { position: absolute; font-family:Verdana; font-size:12px; font-weight:normal; color:#000066; top: 30%; left: 43%; padding: 10px; width: 18%; z-index: 1001; background-color: #fff; } </style> Step 2: Put the divs as shown below in UpdateProgress control. <asp:UpdateProgress ID="updPrgsBaselineTab" runat="server"> <ProgressTemplate> <div id="progressBackgroundFilter" class="progressBackgroundFilter"> </div> <div id="processMessage" class="processMessage"> <table width="100%"> <tr style="width: 100%"> <td style="width: 100%"> Please Wait.......... </td> </tr> <tr style="width: 100%"> <td style="width: 100%" align="center"> <img src="../Images/Update_Progress.gif" /> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </ProgressTemplate> </asp:UpdateProgress> span.fullpost {display:none;}

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Update to SQL Server Configuration Scripting Utility

- by Bill Graziano

Last spring I released a utility to script SQL Server configuration information on CodePlex. I’ve been making small changes in this application as my needs have changed. The application is a .NET 2.0 console application. This utility serves two needs for me. First it helps with disaster recovery. All server level objects (logins, jobs, linked servers, audits) are scripted to a single file per object type. This enables the scripts to be easily run against a DR server. If these are checked into source control you can view the history of the script and find out what changed and when. The second goal is to capture what changed inside a database. Objects inside a database (tables, stored procedures, views, etc.) are each scripted to their own file. This makes it easier to track the changes to an object over time. This does include permissions and role membership so you can capture security changes. My assumption is that a database backup is the primary method of disaster recovery for databases so this utility is designed to capture changes to objects. You can find the full list of changes from the original on the Downloads page on CodePlex.

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Dealing with OOo's braindead context sensitive toolbars

<b>Brendan Scott:</b> "What happens with context senstivity is that when OOo senses you are doing something which might need a specific toolbar, it pops it up for you. Equally, if it thinks you aren’t it will remove that toolbar for you (how kind)."

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MySQL tech writer position on Oracle jobs site

- by stefanhinz

Just in case you missed this, last week I announced that my team is looking for an experienced technical writer. Now the job offer has gone live on the Oracle website. Have a look! That's the EMEA job site, but the position is actually available for Europe or North America. The job offer should appear on the American site soon, too. If you want to join a great team, or if you know someone suitable who does, don't hesitate to contact me!

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How are Reads Distributed in a Workload

- by Bill Graziano

People have uploaded nearly one millions rows of trace data to TraceTune. That’s enough data to start to look at the results in aggregate. The first thing I want to look at is logical reads. This is the easiest metric to identify and fix. When you upload a trace, I rank each statement based on the total number of logical reads. I also calculate each statement’s percentage of the total logical reads. I do the same thing for CPU, duration and logical writes. When you view a statement you can see all the details like this: This single statement consumed 61.4% of the total logical reads on the system while we were tracing it. I also wanted to see the distribution of reads across statements. That graph looks like this: On average, the highest ranked statement consumed just under 50% of the reads on the system. When I tune a system, I’m usually starting in one of two modes: this “piece” is slow or the whole system is slow. If a given piece (screen, report, query, etc.) is slow you can usually find the specific statements behind it and tune it. You can make that individual piece faster but you may not affect the whole system. When you’re trying to speed up an entire server you need to identity those queries that are using the most disk resources in aggregate. Fixing those will make them faster and it will leave more disk throughput for the rest of the queries. Here are some of the things I’ve learned querying this data: The highest ranked query averages just under 50% of the total reads on the system. The top 3 ranked queries average 73% of the total reads on the system. The top 10 ranked queries average 91% of the total reads on the system. Remember these are averages across all the traces that have been uploaded. And I’m guessing that people mainly upload traces where there are performance problems so your mileage may vary. I also learned that slow queries aren’t the problem. Before I wrote ClearTrace I used to identify queries by filtering on high logical reads using Profiler. That picked out individual queries but those rarely ran often enough to put a large load on the system. If you look at the execution count by rank you’d see that the highest ranked queries also have the highest execution counts. The graph would look very similar to the one above but flatter. These queries don’t look that bad individually but run so often that they hog the disk capacity. The take away from all this is that you really should be tuning the top 10 queries if you want to make your system faster. Tuning individually slow queries will help those specific queries but won’t have much impact on the system as a whole.

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How do I rename a mounted Truecrypt volume?

- by invert

When I mount the Truecrypt file on my USB drive it shows up as truecrypt1. The volume is FAT, using mtools to rename a volume label involves e2label /dev/sdbx, however truecrypt1 does not map to a physical partition. fdisk -l does not show the volume partition (only the physical USB device), and df -h lists the volume path as /dev/mapper/truecrypt1. Finally, using the Nautilus 'Rename' context action, gives the error: "Sorry, could not rename "truecrypt1" to "towel": Operation not supported by backend". Apparently this can be done in Win, but how can I rename this volume in Ubuntu? As Nicolas said, specifying the mount point names the partition the same. The truecrypt GUI does not remember the mount point I set, so I specify the mount points in a script which I placed in my main menu. #!/bin/bash gksudo truecrypt /media/usbdrive/encryptedfile /media/securedata/

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How to correctly create a virtual file system?

- by Paul

A task in my homework assignment asks me to create a virtual file system, mount it, and perform some operations on it. I am supposed to create a file of 10 MB whose bits are all set to 0, format it as ext3 and mount it. This is how I've done that: dd if=/dev/zero of=~/filesyst bs=10485760 count=1 sudo mkfs.ext3 ~/filesyst sudo mount –o loop ~/filesyst /media/fuse Even though I've used /dev/sero, the file i still full of gibberish characters (mostly at-signs). The permissions on /media/fuse are drw-rw-rw- (which are alright), but the permissions on the files inside it are something like this: d????????? ? ? ? ? ? lost+found -????????? ? ? ? ? ? secret_bin Where have I gone wrong?

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How to modify grub entry for supporting KGDB kernel image?

- by Nishant

I am trying to update target m/c grub.cfg file for KGDB setup but while booting the m/c it got hung completely and not asking/waiting for remote gdb connection. Following is the entry which I added:- menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-24-kgdb' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { recordfail insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,1)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 12878c3b-c553-4b4b-986a-6e32daea3ad1 linux /vmlinuz-2.6.32-kgdb root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu-root ro kgdbwait [email protected]/,@192.168.140.158/ quiet initrd /initrd.img-2.6.32-24-server } I have also compiled and copied /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15.5-kgdb & /boot/System.map-2.6.15.5-kgdb to target m/c from devlopement m/c. STD entry before adding KGDB in grub.cfg was:- menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-24-server' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { recordfail insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,1)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 12878c3b-c553-4b4b-986a-6e32daea3ad1 linux /vmlinuz-2.6.32-24-server root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu-root ro quiet initrd /initrd.img-2.6.32-24-server } Please suggest how to get rid of this problem.

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Stream sound card output to icecast2 via darkice

- by Alberto Burgos

I want to stream to icecast server via darkice, the default .cfg comes with /dev/dsp, witch is OSS, but there is no /dev/dsp in Ubuntu 12.10, so I tried hw:0,0, but it's just the microphone, and I would like to stream all of the sound-card output. Any ideas? cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB HDA ATI SB at 0xf8700000 irq 16 cat /proc/asound/devices 1: : sequencer 2: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback 3: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture 4: [ 0- 0]: hardware dependent 5: [ 0] : control 33: : timer I tried following this post: How can I stream my soundcard output?

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Shallow Copy vs DeepCopy in C#.NET

Hope below example helps to understand the difference. Please drop a comment if any doubts. using System; using System.IO; using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary; namespace ShallowCopyVsDeepCopy { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { var e1 = new Emp { EmpNo = 10, EmpName = "Smith", Department = new Dep { DeptNo = 100, DeptName = "Finance" } }; var e2 = e1.ShallowClone(); e1.Department.DeptName = "Accounts"; Console.WriteLine(e2.Department.DeptName); var e3 = new Emp { EmpNo = 10, EmpName = "Smith", Department = new Dep { DeptNo = 100, DeptName = "Finance" } }; var e4 = e3.DeepClone(); e3.Department.DeptName = "Accounts"; Console.WriteLine(e4.Department.DeptName); } } [Serializable] class Dep { public int DeptNo { get; set; } public String DeptName { get; set; } } [Serializable] class Emp { public int EmpNo { get; set; } public String EmpName { get; set; } public Dep Department { get; set; } public Emp ShallowClone() { return (Emp)this.MemberwiseClone(); } public Emp DeepClone() { MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(); BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter(); bf.Serialize(ms, this); ms.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin); object copy = bf.Deserialize(ms); ms.Close(); return copy as Emp; } } } span.fullpost {display:none;}

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VMMap - awesome memory analysis tool

VMMap is a process virtual and physical memory analysis utility. It shows a breakdown of a process's committed virtual memory types as well as the amount of physical memory (working set) assigned by the operating system to those types. Besides graphical representations of memory usage, VMMap also shows summary information and a detailed process memory map. Powerful filtering and refresh capabilities allow you to identify the sources of process memory usage and the memory cost of application features. Besides flexible views for analyzing live processes, VMMap supports the export of data in multiple forms, including a native format that preserves all the information so that you can load back in. It also includes command-line options that enable scripting scenarios. VMMap is the ideal tool for developers wanting to understand and optimize their application's memory resource usage. span.fullpost {display:none;}

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TraceTune: Larger Files and History

- by Bill Graziano

I updated TraceTune over the weekend. I increased the trace file upload size to 20MB. We’ve processed over half a million rows of trace data so far and I’m confident this won’t kill the server. I added average CPU and average disk reads to the screen that lists the SQL statements in a trace file. I only added these two. I’m pretty sure average writes isn’t that import. I’m still thinking about average duration. I’m trying to balance showing you what you need with a clean, simple interface. Plus I have a way to see the averages that I describe further down. TraceTune now keeps the last 10 files that you’ve uploaded and will give you some basic details about each file. I think the last change I made is the most interesting. For each SQL statement, I show the history of that statement. You’ll see each trace file where this statement was found. It will list the averages for CPU, reads, writes and duration. This will quickly show you if you’re improving the performance of that query. In my screen shot above you can that even though the execution counts are very different the averages are consistent. If you want to see what queries are consuming the most resources on your server give TraceTune a try.

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Microsoft MVP for year 2011

- by imran_ku07

This is great news for me that I become Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (Microsoft MVP) and Most Valuable Blogger. It feels so great for me. I am very thankful to all friends, community member and team members. Special thanks to ASP.NET MVC Team members Rick Anderson, Levi Broderick, Brad Wilson and Marcin Dobosz. I learn very much from these guys. They are indeed wizards and very much deserve their positions

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PASS: Budget Status

- by Bill Graziano

Our budget situation is a little different this year than in years past. We were late getting an initial budget approved. There are a number of different reasons this occurred. We had different competing priorities and the budget got pushed down the list. And that’s completely my fault for not making the budget a higher priority and getting it completed on time. That left us with initial budget approval in early August rather than prior to June 30th. Even after that there were a number of small adjustments that needed to be made. And one large glaring mistake that needed to be fixed. We had a typo in the budget that made it through twelve versions of review. In my defense I can only say that the cell was red so of course it had to be negative! And that’s one more mistake I can add to my long and growing list of Mistakes I’ll Never Make Again. Last week we passed a revised budget (version 17) with this corrected. This is the version we’re cleaning up and posting to the web site this week or next.

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SQL Saturday #89 in Atlanta!

- by Most Valuable Yak (Rob Volk)

(Yeah yeah, technically it's in Alpharetta, but it's close enough.) Saturday…Saturday….Saturday…. September 17th. TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN! OK, it's not a tractor pull, but it's even better: FREE SQL SERVER TRAINING! They have a bunch of great speakers lined up, and for some reason, me. (Protip: be good friends with the program committee, have sufficient bribe funds, and if all else fails, lots of alcohol, drugs and a camera. Ba-ZING! You too can speak at SQL Saturday!) I will be presenting Revenge: The SQL! in a new and improved SQL Saturday themed presentation. Actually, it's the same ol' presentation, I just updated the slide theme to match the new SQL Saturday website design. (Yeah guys, thanks for changing that a month ago. So much for coasting on the old format.) Of course, you have your choice of three other SQL Saturdays in other cities that day, but come on, you really want to go to this one. #sqlsat89 #sqlsaturday #sqlkilt #sqlpass

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VMMap - awesome memory analysis tool

VMMap is a process virtual and physical memory analysis utility. It shows a breakdown of a process's committed virtual memory types as well as the amount of physical memory (working set) assigned by the operating system to those types. Besides graphical representations of memory usage, VMMap also shows summary information and a detailed process memory map. Powerful filtering and refresh capabilities allow you to identify the sources of process memory usage and the memory cost of application features. Besides flexible views for analyzing live processes, VMMap supports the export of data in multiple forms, including a native format that preserves all the information so that you can load back in. It also includes command-line options that enable scripting scenarios. VMMap is the ideal tool for developers wanting to understand and optimize their application's memory resource usage. span.fullpost {display:none;}

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Can these game be fully coded in html5/javascript?

- by RufioLJ

I mean the mechanics of the game. Would it be possible? -Pokemon GBA series, rendering the world would be easy, but what about battle mechanics? -MapleStory, after seen dragonbound.net which is an identical copy of Gunbound I would think it's rather possible, but I'm still not sure if javascript can handle all the mechanics of the world. It would be heavy on resources I guess? I'm asking this because I'm really interested in html5 game develop(I really think in a future will destroy flash on game dev ground). I want to have an idea of how far games developed with the html5/javascript technology can go. I got especially inspired by dragonbound. I really think it pushes htmlt/javascript to the limits (game dev).

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WinTV-HVR-1900 no picture in VLC

- by nLinked

I've connected a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1900 to my Ubuntu 10.10 PC and used the instructions here to install the firmware and test that it is detected using dmesg. Detection is successful. The WinTV is connected to my TV using component connections. I run this command to enable the component interface: v4l2-ctl -i 1. Then I use cat /dev/video0 test.mpg, and that file is created and plays perfectly with video and sound. However, when I try to play /dev/video0 in VLC Player (and other players), I just get a black screen. I also try the v4l2-ctl -i 1 command before I try it in VLC, but I still get a black screen, and when I use v4l2-ctl -I, it shows it has connection 0 again (Television), so it reverts back to connection 0 instead of connection 1 (component). So I'm a little stuck with getting VLC to get a picture, even though the CAT command works fine. Anything I can try?

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ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidates Now Available!

Download ASP.NET 4 RC and Visual Studio 2010 RC which are now available with "go-live" licenses that allow you to use them on production machines. To learn more about this release, read Scott Guthrie’s blog post.

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SQL Saturday #220 Atlanta May 2013!

- by Most Valuable Yak (Rob Volk)

If you love SQL Server training and are near the Atlanta area, or just love us so much you're willing to travel here, please come join us for: SQL SATURDAY #220! The main event is Saturday, May 18. The event is free, with a $10.00 lunch fee. The main page has more details here: http://www.sqlsaturday.com/220/eventhome.aspx We are also offering pre-conference sessions on Friday, May 17, by 5 world-renowned presenters: Denny Cherry: SQL Server Security Register! Site Twitter Adam Machanic: Surfing the Multicore Wave: Processors, Parallelism, and Performance Register! Site Twitter Stacia Misner: Languages of BI Register! Site Twitter Bill Pearson: Practical Self-Service BI with PowerPivot for Excel Register! Site Twitter Eddie Wuerch: The DBA Skills Upgrade Toolkit Register! Site Twitter We have an early bird registration price of $119 until noon EST Friday, March 22. After that the price goes to $149, a STEAL when you compare it to the PASS Summit price. :) Please click on the links to register and for more information. You can also follow the hash tag #SQLSatATL on Twitter for more news about this event. Can't wait to see you all there!

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Ubuntu Server 12.04 start fails after update

- by Abbgrade

I did an system update on ubuntu server 12.04, which requestet an reboot. Since that, the system never reaches the login. It hangs on: mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory done. mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init. No init found. Try passing init= bootarg. BusyBox v1.18.5 (Ubuntu 1:1.18.5-1ubuntu4) build-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of build-in commands. (initramfs) i tried already to repair it using a live system: + Mounting the filesystems (/boot ext, / btrfs) + fsck ran without problems. + /etc/fstab seems to be OK. + apt update/upgrade on chroot succeed. now, i have no more ideas :/

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My History of Visual Studio (Epilog)

Visual Studio 2010 Launched on Monday. Wow! Its HUGE. A major round of congratulations are in order for everyone involved, not just on the Visual Studio team but also on the Frameworks team and the supporting teams and of course the customers whose feedback was so vital to the success of the product. Ive already written a lot about VS2010 previously in the series and I dont want to go over all that stuff again. In my last history posting, back when Beta 2 came out, I covered...Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

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