Amazon CloudFront Invalidation Feature
At the end of August Amazon announced that CloudFront now has an invalidation feature which can clear the files from the edge locations before the expiration period. The other day I got to try out...
View ArticlePayPal Soap API
I got to “play” with the PayPal SOAP API last week for a website I was building on. It was very easy to work with and I was surprised at how quick I could could get a checkout page going in...
View ArticleAmazon EC2 – Micro Instances
When you thought it couldn’t be cheaper to start running a server on EC2 Amazon announced micro instances. You can get the micro instance for windows ($0.03/hr) and linux($0.02hr) with 613 MB of RAM....
View ArticleGoogle App User and 2 Step Verification
Google announced last week that they will start rolling out the ability of Google App Administrators to require a 2 step verification process for logging in. Many of us are used to this with company...
View ArticleCloudberry Backup Desktop
I recently started using Cloudberry’s Backup Desktop edition as my Carbonite (Online Backup) subscription is running out. In their newest version 2.0 they have added the ability to backup to a local...
View ArticleAmazon RDS for SQL Server
Earlier this month Amazon announced that you can now use RDS with SQL Server. I have been using RDS for MySQL about 9 months now and really like. It automates many of the administrative tasks, but...
View ArticleDocuSign
I recently got to work on a pretty cool project for a client. They needed to have their employee’s electronically sign their time cards which were generated by a SSRS report exported as a PDF. To...
View ArticleVSTO SP1 Install, Can’t Find Config File
I was installing an Excel addin across a clients production servers and for some reason when I ran the addin on one of the machines the Addin couldn’t read the config file even though it could on all...
View ArticleSQL Management Studio – Windows Authentication – different domain
Sometimes you need to use windows authentication to SQL using SQL Management Studio, but the your domain and or username is different than who you are currently logged into you machine as. In that...
View ArticleQuickBooks iif Import Files
Some very good information on how to format an iif file that can be used to import data into QuickBooks. Using this to move sales transaction information from a website into QuickBooks....
View ArticleSQL Server Backup and Maintenance Scripts
https://ola.hallengren.com/sql-server-backup.html
View ArticleSSRS Scripts
Find reports that are not mapped to a data source: SELECT ItemPath = c.[Path], ItemName = c.Name, DatasourceRefrenceName=ds.Name FROM [Catalog] AS c INNER JOIN DataSource AS ds ON ds.ItemID = c.ItemID...
View ArticleFix User permissions on Restore Databases
When a the User at the database level has no login, but there is one in the database. exec sp_change_users_login “auto_fix”, “cw_reports”;
View ArticleStored Procedures Modified in last 7 Days
SELECT name, create_date, modify_date FROM sys.objects WHERE type = 'P' and modify_date>=DateAdd(Day,-7,GetDate())
View ArticleSQL Server – Find all tables that have a column with a specific name
SELECT t.name AS table_name, SCHEMA_NAME(schema_id) AS schema_name, c.name AS column_name FROM sys.tables AS t INNER JOIN sys.columns c ON t.OBJECT_ID = c.OBJECT_ID WHERE c.name ='FindColumnName'...
View ArticleSSRS – Alternate Row Colors
Set Background property of the detail to: = IIf(RowNumber(Nothing) Mod 2 = 0, “#EEEEEE”, “Transparent”)
View ArticleSSRS – Report Data Window – Shortcut
sure why I lose this window sometime, but here is how to get it back: With a report file selected: View -> Report Data. It is a shortcut of Ctrl+Alt+D
View ArticleSSRS Logs
Need to know the stats of what is going on in SSRS. Query ExecutionLog, ExecutionLog2, or ExecutionLog3 and get the time for data retrieval, processing, and time rendering.
View ArticleNextCloud – Rasberry Pi
Just got Nextcloud running on a Rasberry Pi I had laying around. Pretty cool. Just need to configure the home network now to pass traffic to it and will be all set. Already using the iPhone app on the...
View ArticleCreate views for all the tables in a Database with Column Names not *
SELECT ‘IF EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM sys.objects WHERE name = ”vw’ + t.name + ”’ AND type = ”V”) BEGIN DROP VIEW [v_’ + t.name + ‘] END CREATE VIEW [vw’ + t.name + N] AS SELECT ‘ + STUFF( (SELECT N’,[‘ +...
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