By Readers, 10/25/2009
Devs need to prepare for SharePoint 2010--here are 4 suggestions for how to get ready.
By Readers, 04/08/2009
In these tough economic times, getting an IT resume noticed can be challenging because of the number of resumes HR receives for an IT position. To overcome this challenge, one IT ...
By Jeff James, 01/23/2009
In the January 2009 installment of IT Pro Perspectives, we asked readers to let me know what they thought of cloud computing. We received a number of emails, phone calls, and ...
By Readers, 01/22/2009
Here's a utility that you can use to quickly find which columns have mismatched data types across tables in a SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2005 database. Correcting these columns ...
By Readers, 01/22/2009
With Plink, you can programmatically turn off and turn back on VMware virtual machines (VMs) from a remote Windows host. This utility is not only useful but also free.
By Readers, 01/22/2009
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) lacks an easy-to-use tool to get detailed data about partitioned tables. To fill this gap, a reader has created two tools. One provides the ...
By Readers, 12/22/2008
Here's a quick and easy way you can determine whether the current user is a local administrator without having to check Domain Group membership. All you need to do is download and ...
By Readers, 10/29/2008
Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) includes UNIX and Linux binaries that you can run from a Windows command line or in a batch file. When you combine the SFU commands with the ...
By Readers, 10/23/2008
Here's a VBScript script that retrieves a computer's memory and process information, then writes it to a nicely formatted Microsoft Word report. The report is customizable—you can ...
By Readers, 09/29/2008
Unlike most applications, Google Chrome is designed to install in areas that standard users can write to, so they can install this new browser without Admin rights. Here are the ...
By Readers, 09/29/2008
You can use the TOP clause to limit the transaction size, but there's a trick to using it: You need to keep track of which rows have already been updated so that you don’t update ...
By Readers, 09/26/2008
If you need to log off a user on a remote server that's running Terminal Services Manager, you can't use Terminal Services Manager to access that server. Fortunately, you can use ...
By Readers, 09/26/2008
Windows Vista lets you create event-triggered actions through Event Viewer. You can achieve the same functionality in Window XP using a VBScript script and the eventtrigger.exe ...
By Readers, 09/18/2008
Using ADSI Edit to administer Password Settings objects (PSOs) is cumbersome and time-consuming. To reduce the amount of time it takes, you can use PowerShell and some free AD ...
By Readers, 08/28/2008
Although companies might want integer sequences in database applications to be gapless, gaps occur frequently. Here's a solution that you can use to eliminate existing and avoid ...
By Readers, 08/27/2008
Here are the steps you can follow to get into Directory Services Restore Mode remotely through RDP, then run the Ntdsutil tool to check an Active Directory (AD) database.
By Readers, 07/30/2008
Having to modify stored procedures when an object name changes can be tedious. Here's a T-SQL stored procedure that eliminates the tedium from this task.
By Readers, 07/30/2008
This T-SQL stored procedure searches all the databases on your server for the string you specify and returns a list of the objects that contain it.
By Readers, 06/27/2008
No temporary tables or table variables are needed to perform FOR XML PATH concatenation, so the resulting query is not only fast but also high performing.