29 October 2011 0 Comments

HTML5 Mobile and Windows Phone 7

Ben Riga (@benriga) and I have presented a session on HTML5 Mobile and Windows Phone 7 for the Bay Area Mobile Meetup a few weeks ago, since then I have also presented the subject to other conference and developer events.  I am getting a lot of request to post the presentation and here you go: Presentation HTML 5 Development for Windows Phone and Desktop View more presentations from Doris Chen Demo HTML5 Application runs cross platform on IE9 desktop and Windows Phone 7 IE9.  You can see…( read more )

24 March 2011 0 Comments

Build Windows Phone 7 Apps–No Coding Required with AppMakr

What is AppMakr? AppMakr is a browser-based platform, that makes developing Windows Phone 7 Apps quick and easy.  No coding required.  Anyone with existing content can use it and build Windows Phone 7 apps for free

10 February 2011 0 Comments

IE9 Release Candidate(RC) Available to Download: New Features and Changes

IE9 Release Candidate(RC) is here now.  Download it and give a try! If you want to know more about IE9 RC.  There are quite a few news and blogs already.  IEblog highlights the new HTML5 features to enhanced performance, and changes based on developers’ feedback. Short videos are very helpful to understand the new feature and changes. IE technology evangelist Giorgio Sardo talks about the top 5 features in IE9 RC.  Here are the top 5 from his blog: W3C Geo-location Standard is…( read more )

31 March 2010 0 Comments

SSAS Profiler Scheduler

I have been asked by many customers and seen in many social sites, people were asking about the procedure of scheduling SSAS profiler traces so one fine day thought of writing a utility. I have developed a small application which will help in scheduling SSAS Profiler Tracing using predefined Trace Template. This Utility can be useful if you want to collect traces for an issue which occurs during weekend or night time when nobody is available in office to manually Start / Stop Traces.

27 September 2009 0 Comments

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28 August 2009 0 Comments

A delete statement in SQL Server 2000 takes around 1.5 GB of Transaction Log Space, Where as in SQL 2008 it can take around 3.2 GB!

There are a lot of Changes in the Transaction Log Architecture of SQL 2000 and SQL 2008.

28 August 2009 0 Comments

Installation of SQL 2005 on Windows 2003 Cluster fails with error "The drive specified cannot be used for program location. Program files must be installed on a valid local disk available on all cluster nodes"

While installing SQL Server 2005 on a windows server 2003 cluster the installation fails. After you select the Components to Install and click next we get the following error:   Error Massage: TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Setup —————————— The drive specified cannot be used for program location. Program files must be installed on a valid local disk available on all cluster nodes.

27 August 2009 0 Comments

Query to the SYSTEMINDEX to read the Microsoft search results fails when using Search.CollatorDSO provider

We can query the results from the Microsoft search through SQL server. If we create a linked server with Search.CollatorDSO provider and try to query the SYSTEMINDEX to read the Microsoft search results

20 August 2009 0 Comments

INFORMATIONAL: Understanding and Troubleshooting MSP Error: 29512 SQL Server Setup was unable add user <DomainUsername>, when you try to install SQL Server 2005

Good morning Folks! Today I will take you through a setup issue that many of you might have run into when trying to install SQL Server 2005 (especially on a cluster). I’ve tried to list down all possible solutions to the following errors one faces while installing/patching SQL Server 2005.