Friday, February 26, 2010

How to find duplicate records in SQL Server?

This is not a tuff job to do but recently one my friend asked me the same question and i replied with the following query.

SELECT SKUID, COUNT(SKUID) FROM SKURequests
GROUP BY SKUID
HAVING COUNT(SKUID) > 1

 

Even though it is very simple, i thought to share in my blog so it may help some one who needs it.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

The product level is insufficient for component

Recently i tried to import the data from the excel document to my SQL database and received the following error.
Error 0xc00470fe: Data Flow Task: The product level is insufficient for component "Source – XXXX.XLS
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

How to generate Data script from SQL Database

SQL Server 2005 provides a way to generate a scripts for database schema such as Tables, Stored Procedures, Triggers, Functions, Views etc. That’s a good feature you need when you want to move the database schema form one environment to another environment. But what about data? You guys might faced a challenge to fetch data from production to development and you can not use backup and restore option since If you do so, what ever changes you made in development database will be vanished.

JavaScript Frameworks/Libraries Side by Side Comparison

Now a days everyone is using JavaScript frameworks/library in there JavaScript based application development for easier development, especially for AJAX.

There is list of notable JavaScript Frameworks/libraries are available, but the question is which one appropriate to choose.

Friday, February 19, 2010

How to Eliminate Merged Cells from a Reporting Services Excel Export

Recently i developed a report as i do normally by using Page Header (Images and Report Heading), Body (Data within tables) and Page footer (Page Numbers and date and time of report generation). When displaying on the web page or export to excel, all fields and layout shows correctly with out any issue. But the problem is when export to excel, some of the columns were merged as shown below.
Thursday, February 11, 2010

Top 10 VMware Performance Tweaks

Looking for VMWare optimization to improve performance, then look into this article.

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

A nice article about Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Basics

Look into this article to get quick understanding and basics on WCF.

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How to Delete SharedServices?

What ever reason you want to delete the shared services, because of wrong name or wrong site, you can do it either using UI or STSADM tool. Some times UI delete option is disabled, so you dont have any choice other than using STSADM tool.

Virtual Server Performance Tips

Go to this link. I found the article which is very nice and useful for improving virtual server performance.

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How to Enable AHCI After Windows OS installation?

AHCI(Advanced Host Controller Interface) mode brings 3 main advantages:
  1. Supports NCQ (Native Command Queuing) allowing SATA drives to accept more than one command at a time and dynamically reorder the commands for maximum efficiency.
  2. Supports hot plugging of devices.
  3. Supports staggered spin ups of multiple hard drives at boot time
Tuesday, February 9, 2010

How to find Your processor supports Virtualization or not?

I use the following free tools to verify my matherboard and processor details.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

UnKnown PCI Simple Communications Controller

If  your device manger shows unknown PCI Communications controller and not sure what that device is?

Friday, February 5, 2010

Dynamically Change Environment Specific Web.Config file

When ever we develop ASP.NET application, we keep our entire environmental specific settings into web.config file. Based on where we deploy the application (Dev, Test, Prod), we will comment out other environments which is a manually process. Personally I prefer different web.config files for different environments and based on the Build option you select it should dynamically create the appropriate web.config file for that environment.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

UNIX VS Linux

Recently my wife asked me what is the difference between UNIX and Linux. Basically I dont know much about these operating systems becauseI always work with windows operating systems. Since my wife asked the difference between those and even i want to know other operating systems, so I immediately jumped into google and find the following information.

Factory Method Pattern (Creational)

AIM: Define an interface for creating an object, but let subclasses decide which class to instantiate. Factory method lets classes defer (postpone) instantiate to subclasses.