This free 15 module, level 300 course provides students with the knowledge and skills to capitalize on their skills and experience as an Oracle DBA to manage a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 system. This workshop provides a quick start for the Oracle DBA to...

Wondering why your battery life of your laptop is not as good as the manufacturers claim? powercfg -ENERGY You need to run this command from the command prompt with administrator privileges (Run as Administrator). This command will perform a 60 second...

It was announced at Tech Ed USA last week that building a failover cluster, comprising of Hyper-V guests, with SQL Server 2005 and 2008 installed, and clustered on the guest is now supported. Up till now, clustering the hosts was only supported. ...

All good Betas and Release Candidates need to expire some time. Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are no exception. Beta Release Candidate Message: “Is Expiring” 17 June 2009 14 February 2010 Timebomb: Shutdown every...

Introducing Bing Search by Microsoft. A Decision Engine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et0rUzRAXGE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK5IYlZECmE http://www.microsoft.com/emea/presscentre/pressreleases/ProductLaunchPR_280509.mspx So from 3 June 2009 , don...