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Liked WP-SpamFree so far
During my to WordPress 2.6.2, I decided to use the default spam plug-in, Akismet. After a few days of usage, there were still a few trackbacks slipped through, creating additional emails and work for me. So I wasn’t too satisfied and searched for an alternative spam plug-in. I decided to try WP-SpamFree. So far it […]
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Played with Google Chrome
Google Chrome Beta is available for download today. I played with it. I am not impressed at the moment and will not convert from Firefox. I may give it another whirl in a few months. The strength of Firefox, in my view, is its many available extensions, which practically spoil and pamper me to the […]
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Migrating from one RDBMS to another
Here is some of my thoughts on migrating MySQL to Sql Server. It came out of an email discussion. I’d love to hear your thoughts on migrating to a different database platform, not just MySQL to Sql Server. I actually thought about writing a white paper or even a course on migrating from MySQL to […]
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Internet connection problem when Symantec anti-virus software is not running
I noticed there were a lot of bloated Symantec anti-virus junk installed on a workstation I work with. So I disabled most of them in Windows services. The next day I came back, I couldn’t connect to the web with my Firefox anymore, but could connect via Internet Explorer. In addition, connecting to remote Sql […]
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Get the documents out of SharePoint database
I recently helped a client to get the WSS 3.0 documents out, as the client’s SharePoint is broken and we couldn’t get it fixed in short time, but they really want the Word, Excel, and pdf documents out of there. WSS 3.0, Windows SharePoint Services, uses Sql Server for data storage. The Sql Server version […]