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Entries from June 2006

Shrink the SQL Server Transaction Log

June 14th, 2006 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

I don’t consider myself an expert on Microsoft SQL server, as a matter of fact I don’t know much at all and depend almost entirely on the Internet to solve my problems.
So on Monday morning when I came into the office to find that our Intranet wasn’t working because the database server was full I [...]

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Tags: Applications



Google Notebook and Spreadsheet

June 7th, 2006 by dcouper · No Comments

Yesterday Google launched an online spreadsheet to compliment their online notebook. It is being widely said that this is an attack on Microsoft – which to a certain extent it is….but it is so reliant on one thing that google can never guarentee– bandwidth. These tools are great for an office environment where bandwidth is [...]

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Tags: Applications

Software RAID on Windows 2003

June 5th, 2006 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

On Friday my primary Microsoft Active Directory Server hard drive failed. In our planning we did not set up the server with RAID on the OS Hard Drive. Now I am stuck loading the system up from scratch.
In planning for the rebuild I went ahead and purchased two identical hard drives so that we would [...]

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Tags: OS & Servers