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My take on MCTS 71-448 SQL Server 2008 BI beta exam
Took the SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Development and Maintainance beta exam today (exam 71-448 which will eventually become 70-448 when it goes live) and here are some of my thoughts [more] Business Intelligence is more like a hobby (or just in something in my wishlist) for me as of the moment since I haven’t…
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Short Scattered Notes
I have some short notes to make and it might not be blogworthy so having them on this page instead 🙂 Will add to this from time to time. [more] ASP.NET Security * You have a web site/application deployed to IIS. You use <authentication mode="Windows"/>. You set the IIS site/virtual directory security to allow anonymous.…
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FREE Web Conferencing with dimdim.com
Just like to share about dimdim.com. Nopz, this is not a social networking site like friendster or myspace, nor a paid blogging site, ad site or a multilevel marketing site where i'd convince you to sign for me to get a referral fee 🙂 Dimdim.com is a web conferencing/meeting service/platform similar to the popular WebEx…
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MCTS ADO.NET 3.5 Applications results out and passed
A good way to start a day. Just got an email regarding another latest addition to my cert list. Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist : .NET Framework 3.5 ADO.NET Applications [more] The exam I took for this was 71-561 and when going live would become 70-561. I was excited to come up with a new logo…
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MCTS SQL Server 2008 beta exam 71-432 taken
I just got off from taking exam 71-432: TS: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Implementation and Maintenance – which will become 70-432 when it goes live and is the successor of 70-431 (for SQL 2005)and here are just a few thoughts [more] This is sort of "SQL Server 2008" foundation exam and required to move on…
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MCTS ASP.NET 3.5 Applications Passed
Despite seeing my site being down due to “cannot connect to SQL server” error it was getting for some hours (courtesy of GoDaddy – again not recommended for production), I just received the good news today. I passed MCTS .NET Framework 3.5 – ASP.NET Applications [more] Received an email with subject “Congratulations on Your Microsoft…
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SubSonic and Club Starter Kit
If you don't code generate your DAL or use OR/M or anything that would make you worry less about DataAccess like LINQtoSQL, Entity Framework, NHibernate, Castle ActiveRecord then you should definitely give SubSonic a shot. On the side I'm currently working on a C# version of Extended Club Starter Kit Version 3 Beta 1 for…
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Get Ancestor and Descendant IDs or info using SQL 2005 Common Table Expressions
Need some recursive processing in TSQL (SQL Server 2005)? Needed some TSQL code again to retrieve descendant and ancestor entries in a self-referencing table. I've done this a couple of times already and although I can write on top of my mind, sometimes you just want to make life easier and have a script you…
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Lost Internet Access due to ZoneAlarm and Microsoft Update KB951748
I ran into this issue a while ago where I lost internet access connection after installing a windows update and turns out to be because of my ZoneAlarm installation. [more] Overview: Microsoft Update KB951748 is known to cause loss of internet access for ZoneAlarm users on Windows XP/2000. Windows Vista users are not affected. Impact…
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LINQ to SQL and Visual C# Developer Express Data Source Connections
While I was evaluating a couple of things including LINQ to SQL (or L2S to some) for a small website I tried to look into whether it was possible to have the LINQ to SQL classes on a separate project (eg. DAL) rather than the website itself. [more] Since Visual Web Developer Express Edition (you…
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