Author Archives: combatdba

About combatdba

I'm a production DBA at a terabyte-class SQL Server Shop

Visual Studio 2012 puts the “Ug!” in “Ugly”

Posted on 20 August, 2012 by combatdba

I think I’m all done with this article.  Well, maybe not. Microsoft seem to have taken the really bad Metro idea from Windows 8 and pushed it onto VS2012 also.  All dull grey.  VS2010 had a classy, visually “easy upon … Continue reading →

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What a Year Brings

Posted on 1 April, 2012 by combatdba

Ok, so it’s a year and change. In November 0f 2010, I was working at a small distribution company with the best group of people you could hope to serve (mostly), but with a limited technology environment.  Things that could … Continue reading →

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Installing Sharepoint 2010 Farm on a Single VMWare VM

Posted on 26 March, 2012 by combatdba

If you are like most of us Sharepoint Admins (or SQL Server DBA’s in a Cluster Environment, for that matter), you will often want to run through a new service implementation on a Virtual Machine taking a snapshot and running the … Continue reading →

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Access 2010: A Rare Second Chance

Posted on 24 March, 2012 by combatdba

Back in the late 90’s, tools and languages such Powerbuilder/PowerScript, and Borland’s Delphi/Pascal were leading the pack in the race to R.A.D. (Rapid Application Development).  Microsoft, seeing that it had no real poker in this fire decided to push one of … Continue reading →

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Waaaay too busy to post….

Posted on 18 March, 2012 by combatdba

Sorry for the long absence.  I’ve been gone so long I didn’t even notice that my domain mapping had expired!  Life as a (that is to say, THE) developer and DBA for an international airline company is demanding to say … Continue reading →

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I’ll just leave this here…..

Posted on 20 November, 2011 by combatdba

I have NO idea how this happened!  😉

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Can’t Save Sharepoint Doc Even with proper permissions

Posted on 10 October, 2011 by combatdba

Ran into this today.  User can open and edit, but cannot then save an excel spreadsheet from a document library.  Error msg says “document is read only”.  But it isn’t read only.  And the user has proper permissions to the … Continue reading →

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Can I Kick It? Yes I Can!

Posted on 22 August, 2011 by combatdba

Well, I spent a day or three building a SQL Server Automatic Failover Cluster with two nodes, each one hosted on a Windows 2008 VM running in Hyper-V with an iSCSI SAN shared between them.    Each VM is the main … Continue reading →

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Lessons Learned from a Cheese Curd maker

Posted on 17 June, 2011 by combatdba

This is not an article about technology.  This is an article about how to properly use technology, or at least how to not use it.  Wise words I learned from a wise man. So, to be honest the guy was … Continue reading →

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I’ll just leave this here….

Posted on 26 May, 2011 by combatdba

An excellent discussion on manipulating Excel Spreadsheets directly from SQL Server TSQL! http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/t-sql-programming/sql-server-excel-workbench/

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