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Using Alt-select in SSMS, Word, and elsewhere

- by John Paul Cook

A surprising number of database people and Windows users in general don’t know about Alt select . This is a Windows technique not unique to SSMS that allows a user to select an arbitrary rectangular region of text and delete it, cut it, or copy it. Where I find Alt select particularly useful in SSMS is when I have a bunch of inline comments that…

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Reminder: Oracle Solaris 11 Beta Exam Ending Soon!

- by Paul Sorensen

Just a quick reminder that the beta exam for the new "Oracle Certified Associate, Oracle Solaris 11 System Administrator" certification will be ending on April 28th. I'd like to invite anyone that has held off on becoming certified to consider taking beta exam. Participating in our Oracle's certification beta exams is a very inexpensive way…

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Genetic Considerations in User Interface Design

- by John Paul Cook

There are several different genetic factors that are highly relevant to good user interface design. Color blindness is probably the best known. But did you know about motion sickness and epilepsy? We’ve been discussing how genetic factors should be considered in user interface design in one of my classes at Vanderbilt University School of…

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Social media and special characters

- by John Paul Cook

I’ve previously blogged about using Unicode with T-SQL to put superscripts, subscripts, and special characters into text strings. Unicode is also useful in formatting social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and that dinosaur otherwise known as email. When you can’t set properties of text such as italicizing the subject line of an email…

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Many-to-many relationships in pharmacology

- by John Paul Cook

When I was in my pharmacology class this morning, I realized that the instructor was presenting a classic relational database management system problem: the many-to-many relationship. He said that all of us in nursing school must know our drugs backwards and forwards. I know how to model that! There are so many things in both…

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Upgraded Ubuntu 12.04 -> 12.10 and Drupal 7 site now get error

- by Paul B

I do all my Drupal 7 webdev and today I took advantage to upgrade my local WebDev box O/S to Ubuntu 12.10 from 12.04 and now I get the following errors for all my D7 projects on my localhost WebDev box (Ubuntu 12.10) It was all fine pre Ubuntu 12.04: Error The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later. …

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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…

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Ubuntu Server adding a new user

- by Paul Edwards

Hi i am new to Ubuntu server and i have been trying to add a new user. I typed in adduser then username and also tried useradd then username but it does seem to add a user but when i login i only get a dollar sign instead of user@servername. I have tried adding rules to allow me into the sudo for that username but i just…

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Chrome trims the last <li> element in a row [closed]

- by Paul

Ok guys, I give up. Here's the code I'm struggling with: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"…

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Windows 8 Consumer Preview and SkyDrive

- by John Paul Cook

SkyDrive integrates very nicely with Windows 8. More on that later. First, let’s discuss using Windows 8 x64 on VirtualBox. Since I wanted to test with x64 and didn’t have a Hyper-V server available, I used VirtualBox. The latest version of VirtualBox does list Windows 8 as a guest…

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Excel 2013 Data Explorer and GeoFlow make 3-D maps quick and easy

- by John Paul Cook

Excel add-ins Data Explorer and GeoFlow work well together, mainly because they just work. Simple, fast, and powerful. I started Excel 2013, used Data Explorer to search for, examine, and then download latitude-longitude data and finally used GeoFlow to plot an interactive 3-D…

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Surface Pro 3 first impressions

- by John Paul Cook

I traded in my Surface 2 (the trade-in program is now over) and bought a Surface Pro 3 with an i7 processor and 8 GB of ram. I greatly prefer the 3 by 2 aspect ratio of the Surface 3. After only one day of ownership, I’ve decided to purchase a docking station. I have a 7 year…

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New free SQL Azure offer

- by John Paul Cook

Microsoft has a new and better way to get a free Azure account for a month. All you need to do to sign up is provide your Windows Live Id and register at http://bit.ly/CRAzurePass using promotional code DPCE01 . This is a great way to learn about SQL Azure and improve your…

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Latest Business Analytics Support News has been released

- by paul.a

The latest edition of Business Analytics Support News is now available. You can read our quarterly newsletter Volume 5 Doc ID 1347131.1Featured topics include details on Smartview 64-Bit Support Patch Set Update information for various products …

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How do you run XBMC on nvidia dual screen and stop it from taking over the keyboard and mouse?

- by Paul Swartout

I have set up dual screen under Ubuntu 12.04. I have a GeForce 8500 GT and have used the nVidia control panel to set up dual screen in "Separate screen mode". Here's the resulting xorg.conf # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings #…

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Speaking at Houston Techfest on September 8

- by John Paul Cook

I’m giving my talk on SQL Server and SSMS Tips and Tricks at Houston Techfest on September 8, 2012. It will be similar to the one I gave at last year’s Techfest and also the one I gave at the Houston SQL Server User Group meeting last month. It will be mostly…

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Google Analytics Campaigns Not Tracking E-Commerce

- by Paul

I am running email campaigns via MailChimp and tracking the success of my campaigns via Google Analytics. I can successfully see data being tracked for: Reporting > Conversions > Ecommerce (Receiving Data) Reporting > Traffic Sources > Campaigns…

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replacing Zorin OS 8 with ubuntu 14.04

- by Paul John

I was trying to replace Zorin OS 8 with ubuntu 14.04 (32 bits). What I have tried: I took an empty pen drive and downloaded Ubuntu 14.04 iso file on to this pen drive. I then restarted my laptop (Lenovo N 3000) and pressed F12 I then selected the USB…

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One monitor getting spilled over into other monitor: how to do a 100% reset of gnome graphics configuration

- by Paul Nathan

I had to kill a VMWare process and afterwards, my monitor's configuration is buggy. I have 2 monitors in a side-by-side configuration. My right-hand monitor is the secondary monitor. Upon its right-hand side there are about 50 pixels showing from the…

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Working with legacy data

- by John Paul Cook

We encounter legacy data as a part of life. Colleges and universities have transcript records dating back decades or even centuries. Real estate property records in the United States go as far back as Spanish and British land grants in the 1500s. Very…

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Ubuntu 11.10 overheating with Sony Vaio

- by Paul Connolly

I am a Windows user trying to move over to Ubuntu without much success. I have installed the 11.10 version as dual boot by using Wubi tool on the Ubuntu website and can only use the operating system for about 5 minutes before it overheats and shuts…

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Deletes that Split Pages and Forwarded Ghosts

- by Paul White

Can DELETE operations cause pages to split? Yes. It sounds counter-intuitive on the face of it; deleting rows frees up space on a page, and page splitting occurs when a page needs additional space. Nevertheless, there are circumstances when deleting…

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Windows Not Sleeping All Night

- by John Paul Cook

Having a computer wake up when you don’t want it to wastes electricity and drains the battery on mobile devices. My desktop had been waking up at night, so I assumed it was some network traffic on my home network. I unchecked Allow this device to…

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NOSQL - Extracting keywords from PowerPoint using PowerShell

- by John Paul Cook

Yesterday I mentioned my desire to transform PowerPoint slides from just data to actual information. I've made good progress using PowerShell, but I need PowerShell help with a problem that I hope is of some general interest. Originally I…

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Which code module should map physical keys to abstract keys?

- by Paul Manta

How do you bridge the gap between the library's low-level event system and your engine's high-level event system? (I'm not necessarily talking about key events, but also about quit events.) At the top level of my event system, I send out…

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