Tag Archives: microsoft

Transferring logins and passwords between SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Stephen

This link is very useful and details how to transfer the logins and the passwords between instances of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and Microsoft SQL Server 2008, on different servers. – Microsoft Knowledge Base: #246133

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Azure sample database setup….

Posted on December 29, 2009 by steve

Notes on setting up the sample database – adventureworks [click here] for Microsoft’s cloud computing sql server called Azure: you need an account – get one from sql.azure.com – it takes some time for your access information to arrive by … Continue reading →

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Azure SQL….

Posted on December 24, 2009 by Stephen

Adventure works sample databases are now available for Microsoft’s SQL Azure at codeplex – click here.

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Classic Physics Lectures on Microsoft Research Website

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Stephen

Microsoft Research at this link, provides for free the lecture series of iconic physicist Richard Feynman.

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Microsoft Hyper-V…

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Stephen

Using Windows 2008 Server Operating system, this allows you to create a server based virtualized computing platform. An x64-based processor. Hyper-V is available in x64-based versions of Windows Server 2008—specifically, the x64-based versions of Windows Server 2008 Standard, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise, and … Continue reading →

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Silverlight….

Posted on January 11, 2009 by Stephen

Microsoft Silverlight allows developers to create rich, cross-platform, interactive Web applications. I went through some sample code from Microsoft’s silverlight.net website and created a base page from which to demo/test the functionality of silverlight capabilities and use these as a … Continue reading →

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Unable to connect to remote server – error

Posted on December 31, 2008 by Stephen

If you get this message say from Visual Studio when trying to deploy SSRS reports to a SQL Server 2008 database instance, heres how this can be resolved. This is usually caused by kerberos security authentication. Navigate to: C:\Program Files\Microsoft … Continue reading →

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