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  • Blog Post: SQL Server Hyper-V Virtual Machines, Where do I put the Cluster?

    SQL by Edinson Medina
    I remember the old days, when I wasn’t a fan of Installing SQL Server on Virtual Machines, but in todays world thanks to Hyper-V 2012 (and I guess VMWARE too), a lot of the resource bottlenecks for virtual machines has disappear. However still it’s not for every workload. Recently I...
    on 3 Feb 2014

  • Blog Post: Sysprep and SQL Server

    SQL by Edinson Medina
    Duración : 30 min. Tema : SQL Server Sysprep. Descripción del tema: En este tea tocaremos los pasos que debemos seguir para crear una imagen de SQL Server y Windows Server. Objetivo: Dar a conocer cómo funcionan la caracteristica de sysprep en SQL Server y como la podemos...
    on 2 Feb 2014

  • Blog Post: Error loading Project Center page in SP 2010 CU April 2013 or SP2

    socrams
    During June and October 2013, I was supporting two customers in Venezuela, in order to update their SharePoint 2010 and Project Server 2010 production environments. Customers did not have testing environments, neither a formal patch management strategy, therefore, they decided update directly in Production...
    on 27 Jan 2014

  • Blog Post: Install Service Pack 1 in your SharePoint 2010 farm to explore and take advantage of the new SQL 2012 features

    socrams
    Hi Technet community. Today I have the privilege to start write in this blog (and a little reward the knowledge I've gained in Technet and MSDN). A few weeks ago it was the launch of SQL 2012 ( http://www.microsoft.com/es-es/sqlserver/default.aspx ) and I would like to make a brief reference to the...
    on 26 Apr 2012

  • Blog Post: Memory Concepts on Windows

    SQL by Edinson Medina
    Understanding the Memory concepts on Windows is an important part to note performance problems and resolve them. Many times the term of Physical memory can be confused with the concept of Virtual memory: Virtual Memory and Physical Memory The physical memory (RAM) is managed directly by the...
    on 23 Sep 2011

  • Blog Post: COLUMN STORE INDEXES

    SQL by Edinson Medina
    Some days ago I visit a client on Puerto Rico that was having some performance problems on a transactional application and after resolving the issue the client express interested on learning about Column Store Index, this kind of indexes is a new functionality on SQL Server 2012, as we will see his kind...
    on 11 Dec 2012

  • Blog Post: How to create or use unprotected audio files as ringtones in your Windows Phone 7

    Raymundo Vale
    Hey there community, Today we will learn how to create and use WMA or MP3 files as ringtones in our powerfull Windows Phone 7. Since Microsoft released its Mobile operating system we wished to use our old ringtones from other companies or inclusive from our Windows Mobile phone, today is official...
    on 24 Apr 2012

  • Blog Post: We happily work even on the beach, can you believe it? =)

    Eduardo Nakahara
    Last week we had an internal event called GeekReady, where PFE’s all over LATAM (Latin America) could get together to hear from the management team the latest updates, acquire and share knowledge, meet with new-hires and reunite with old friends (which in our case is great, as we usually are constantly...
    on 13 Mar 2012

  • Blog Post: Datasheet view thrown an error in SharePoint 2010

    Raymundo Vale
    Hi there community, First of all wishing you a successfull 2012, today we'll talk about a known issue related to "Datasheet View" option for SharePoint 2010 lists. What is Datasheet View in SharePoint 2010 for? You can export a SharePoint list from Datasheet view to Microsoft Access or Microsoft...
    on 8 Feb 2012

  • Blog Post: SharePoint does not change the time like Windows automatically?

    Raymundo Vale
    Hey there SharePoint guys, This post is intended to help to people that a Time Zone change applied before or after the standard and SharePoint operations are being registered with the incorrect time. SharePoint is not able to synchronize its "clock" automatically with Windows clock, therefore if...
    on 21 Sep 2011

  • Blog Post: How to configure FBA (Forms-Based Authentication) in SharePoint Server 2010 using IIS 7 and ASP .NET Membership Database (SQL) like in MOSS 2007!!!

    Raymundo Vale
    After testing many times and configuring FBA in many Virtual environments, finally I think I wrote the easiest and clearest procedure and hope what I'm saying is true, please read carefully and do not skip any step. To configure FBA using SQL Server with Windows Integrated Authentication (recommended...
    on 16 Mar 2012

  • Blog Post: Identifying Cell by Cell Computation Mode in MDX queries

    SQL by Edinson Medina
    Some weeks ago I was asked to help with a performance issue with some MDX Queries. I was shown what the customer wanted to achieve, they needed to calculate some metrics including sampling errors using the method of “Conglomerados Últimos” (This can be translated to “Conglomerates...
    on 9 Sep 2013

  • Blog Post: Undocumented Store Procedures on SQL Server 2008

    SQL by Edinson Medina
    Introduction Hello, a few days ago I was think that even the high usage that I personally use of the xp_readerrorlog (or sp_readererrorlog) stored procedure to review the SQL Error Log, if do an internet search about it you will not find any official references to it. Like this stored procedure there...
    on 24 Nov 2011

  • Blog Post: SQL Server on a Virtualized environment

    SQL by Edinson Medina
    Hello! Recently there has been a lot of question about Virtualization to the SQL Server PFE Team, about the Virtualization advantages, consolidation and of course about updating SQL Server to the latest version. As you can imagine, having the latest version of the product will give us a lot of new...
    on 24 Aug 2011

  • Blog Post: SQL Server collation and MOSS 2007

    Raymundo Vale
    Recently I've worked in some SharePoint RAP's and I've found something which is most common in SharePoint farms, customers share SQL Server to host several applications, since many times SharePoint is not considered as a critical application its databases are allocated in a shared SQL Server, unfortunatelly...
    on 10 Jun 2011

  • Blog Post: SharePoint Server 2010 Support ends on July 10,2012

    Raymundo Vale
    Hello there community Recently was released a note about Microsoft Support Lifecycle policy in which we were adviced that SharePoint Server 2010 (any version before SP1) won't be supported anymore after July 10,2012. SharePoint LATAM PFE team suggests you to update to Service Pack 1 plus June CU Refresh...
    on 11 May 2012

  • Blog Post: SQLOS and Memory Management

    SQL by Edinson Medina
    From SQL Server 2005 the SQLOS was implemented don SQL Server. We can see the SQLOS as a layer used by SQL Server to interact with the Operating System. The need to have the SQLOS on SQL Server is given by the need to adapt to changes at the hardware and architecture levels. Windows is defined as...
    on 3 Nov 2011

  • Blog Post: Security Audit on SQL Server 2008

    SQL by Edinson Medina
    This week while I was working on Bolivia, I overheard the security staff discussing about options they can use to audit transactions done on the database tables. I interrupted and asked them if they knew about the SQL Audit configuration on SQL 2008, and they told me they didn’t. So wrote this...
    on 22 Oct 2011

  • Blog Post: Hotfix KB979917 affects SharePoint Server 2010

    Raymundo Vale
    FYI: Pay attention to Windows Server 2008 hotfix KB979917 , this hotfix can be required if you are using web applications with CLAIMS as authentication provider, you can see the following message " The Health Analyzer reports that web applications using claims authentication require an update to fix...
    on 6 Jun 2011

  • Blog Post: Advantages and Disadvantages on Change Tracking

    SQL by Edinson Medina
    Some weeks ago a customer asked me for options to Audit a specific situation. I decided to evaluate Change Tracking, a new feature in SQL 2008. The conclusion is that Change Tracking is not auditing feature and we shouldn't try to use it as one, so I want to share some of my findings. SQL Server 2008...
    on 6 Jul 2011

  • Blog Post: Corrupt Pages on SQL Server

    SQL by Edinson Medina
    While we were drinking caipiriñas on Brazil, the SQL PFE’s were sharing some of our experiences on clients, and one of them was corrupt pages on SQL Server. First of all, ¿What is a page? On the SQL Server context a page is the smallest unit of allocation of data, with 8KB of size...
    on 29 Jun 2011

  • Blog Post: REMOVABLE DATABASES ON SQL SERVER

    SQL by Edinson Medina
    Everyone that Works with SQL Server have needed to move a SQL database from one Instance to another in some point in their live, and probably has needed to deal with tapes, CDs or another media to copy the databases when it’s not possible to do it through the network. The files will most probably...
    on 7 Oct 2011

  • Blog Post: Integration Services Enhancements on SQL 2012

    SQL by Edinson Medina
    What is Integration Services? SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a tool to allow for gathering of data from diverse sources, scrubbing and homogenizing the data into a format for unified use, and loading that data into databases, spreadsheets, text files, or any other OLE-DB compliant destination...
    on 9 Apr 2012

  • Blog Post: Has this blog useful?

    Raymundo Vale
    Hello there, We are closing the year and we would like to know if our job over the PFE LATAM Blog has been useful for you, please tell us if posted articles helped to fix or guide you through the issues or challenges you have faced off with Microsoft technologies. Do not hesitate if you have suggestions...
    on 14 Dec 2011

  • Blog Post: SharePoint 2010 Upgrade and Migration summary

    Raymundo Vale
    Hey SharePoint community, Once more writting for you a new post about SharePoint 2010 upgrade and migration, since many of our customers are in the middle of this process and several cuestions come up about it, I wrote a summary of the entire process and some additional information you should be aware...
    on 20 Oct 2011