Thursday, August 25, 2011

Sweaty leather chair?

You can get the two piece cushion from any department store.

Put it on the seat, and say bye bye to sweaty backsides!!

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Improved news results starting now...

I have implemented a major change which will ensure that the most interesting articles will come to you before the boring/ junk ones. It has already started working as of now.

Things are going to get better now..

sql server 2008 r2 sp2 saves the day!

The whole of last year was a struggle because sql server was acting up. Basically it would not utilize resources to scale up properly and used to choke in certain queries.

Even though we optimized to the max, the condition remained the same forcing me to think whether there is anything more which could be done in SQL.

Not anymore!

After installing SP2, I see tremendous improvement in scalability and performance. The site is running very well, and I am happy to move ahead to focus on improving the content, rather than fighting with SQL just to survive!!

- previously deadlocks used to bring down the entire database, now it is handled properly like Oracle does.

- previously long running queries used to bring down the entire database, now that is handled in a much better way.

Friday, August 19, 2011

All services are up again

I would like to announce that today American services are up & running again.

With the readability plugin in the reeder iPhone app, it has become an awesome experience reading articles.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

one of the file paths specified for backup is under a reparse point

I was getting this error trying to configure backup on my windows 2008 server r2 box.

I closed the UI, reopened it, unselected bare metal recovery, removed some of the unwanted folders from the C: drive which I wanted to exclude. This time, I did not uncheck some of the users who I had tried to exclude the last time.

It went ahead and created the backup schedule successfully.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Friday, July 29, 2011

Windows Tip

Did you know you could drag and drop any folder to the "Favorites" menu on the left tree in the Win 7 explorer?

It makes reaching those hard to reach folders very easy.

Discovered by mistake.