>We always think that having a backup is more than enough to keep us afloat during a disaster. I always say that any backup will be useless unless it is tested. I came across one case where a SQL Server 2000 backup for the master database cannot be restored because it was generated using a […]

>If you have been working with business forms, you probably have created a few in either Microsoft Word or Excel. One thing to make managing business forms a lot easy is to upload them in your Sharepoint portal. This makes it easy to have a standardized form easily available to the rest of the organization. […]

I was trying to fix my installation of SQL Server 2005 as my IIS was totally screwed up (this is what happens when you toy around with your machine too much). I uninstalled and reinstalled SQL Server 2005 and the other related services on my test machine which has SQL Server 2000 instances as well. […]

>It must have been tough trying to capture INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE activities in a SQL Server database. Usually, developers may resort to creating DML triggers just to solve this problem in previous versions. The problem with this approach is that it introduces unnecessary overhead in the database engine. Another approach is to read the […]

>While I rarely use my Windows Vista laptop at home, I happen to use it to convert my PowerPoint 2007 files to 2003 version and sometimes to copy slides from 2007 to 2003. As I was copying my slides from my USB thumb drive to the laptop, I noticed an unusual (for me, it is […]