Sending emails from extra domains in Office 365

2013-04-23 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low CEO and Principal Mentor SQL Down Under SQL Server MVP and Microsoft Regional Director 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax Web: http://www.sqldownunder.com/ www.sqldownunder.com

RE: Sending emails from extra domains in Office 365

2013-04-23 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
: http://www.sqldownunder.com/ www.sqldownunder.com From: Greg Low (GregLow.com) [mailto:g...@greglow.com] Sent: Wednesday, 24 April 2013 1:58 PM To: 'ozDotNet' (ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com) Subject: Sending emails from extra domains in Office 365 Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low CEO

RE: 1300 Number

2013-04-22 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Hi Corneliu, We've had a good run with: http://callstream.com.au/ http://callstream.com.au/ Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: http://www.sqldownunder.com/ www.sqldownunder.com

RE: MVC4 URLs

2013-04-17 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
(SomeAction,SomeController); On 12/04/2013 18:51, Greg Low (GregLow.com) wrote: Hi Nathan/Dave, This seems to work but seems ugly: string returnURI = HttpContext.Request.Url.AbsoluteUri.Replace(HttpContext.Request.Url.AbsolutePath,) + Url.Action(SomeAction

RE: Office365 ?

2013-04-13 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
While I’d love fibre to the house, project management is the one that’s my biggest concern. Clichés about inability to run chook raffles, even when given chooks, customers, wheels and comperes come to mind. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61

RE: Office365 ?

2013-04-12 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Greg Low (GregLow.com) g...@greglow.com mailto:g...@greglow.com wrote: And ironically, that’s value that Telstra really could potentially bring to the table. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775

RE: MVC4 URLs

2013-04-12 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
, couldn't you just write your own a href? On 12 April 2013 11:17, Greg Low (GregLow.com http://GregLow.com ) g...@greglow.com mailto:g...@greglow.com wrote: Hi Folks, In MVC4, in the code for a controller, what’s the best way to calculate the fully qualified URL for a particular action

RE: Website title bar image

2013-04-12 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
[mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Low (GregLow.com) Sent: Friday, 12 April 2013 6:30 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: Website title bar image Hi Folks, What property on a website is used to configure this icon: Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low CEO

RE: Office365 ?

2013-04-11 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
...@connors.com | M +61 417 189 363 Download my v-card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors Follow me on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davidconnors Connect with me on LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Greg Low (GregLow.com) g...@greglow.com

MVC4 URLs

2013-04-11 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Hi Folks, In MVC4, in the code for a controller, what's the best way to calculate the fully qualified URL for a particular action? Eg: If I use Url.Action(SomeAction,SomeController) The intellisense for Action says gets a fully qualified URL. However what I get back is:

RE: [OT] Surface RT or Surface Pro?

2013-04-11 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
I think they are responding to the BYOD movement as well. The days of IT staff defining an SOE and forcing everyone to use it are gone, or at least disappearing fast. It's really common to have top-down decisions on this stuff now ie: CEOs coming in with their tablets and saying make it work here.

RE: occasionally connected application design problem

2013-03-27 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Hi Corneliu, I don't mind roll-your-own solutions. They work ok. Biggest issue I come across with those LastUpdated type columns is checking out how they get updated. I often see people run into issues with those if they don't understand how they were updated. For example, doing work on a

RE: nTier ASP.NET MVC Application Architecture

2013-03-20 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
, they don't get them. - Use common frameworks like Twitter Bootstrap and jQuery that do a lot of work abstracting the change out for you. On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Greg Low (GregLow.com) g...@greglow.com mailto:g...@greglow.com wrote: Yep, found the same. They were very useful

RE: Visual Studio once great for blind users, but not anymore: how to work around this and still be able to learn the Windows 8 Runtime interface?

2013-03-16 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Hi Katharine, I've passed your comments onto an internal Microsoft mailing list (without identifying you) and I'll let you know what feedback comes back. That's certainly interesting feedback. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913

RE: Running code snippets

2013-03-11 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
+1 All’s fine with PayPal till it isn’t. Then it feels like you’re in a Monty Python skit… Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: http://www.sqldownunder.com/ www.sqldownunder.com

RE: sql server concurrency and 'conflicting' updates

2013-02-04 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Hi Wallace, The best approaches for this are usually based around the rowversion data type. Each table can have a column of type rowversion. This used to be called timestamp. All it contains is a binary value that changes whenever the data in the row changes. It does that automatically. So,

RE: Transcription software

2013-02-03 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
(elance, taskarmy) for few cents an hour. On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Greg Low (GregLow.com) g...@greglow.com mailto:g...@greglow.com wrote: Hi Folks, Anyone know if there’s anything better than Dragon for transcription software? Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low CEO and Principal

Transcription software

2013-02-01 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Hi Folks, Anyone know if there's anything better than Dragon for transcription software? Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low CEO and Principal Mentor SQL Down Under SQL Server MVP and Microsoft Regional Director 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913

RE: SQLite and SQL Server schemas

2013-01-22 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Hey Greg, SQL Server IDENTITY columns can be 32 bit or 64 bit. Both work ie: int or bigint. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: http://www.sqldownunder.com/ www.sqldownunder.com

RE: Xaml basics: where to start?

2013-01-21 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
It's also worth noting that many frameworks attempt to reduce the amount of code that you need to write by favouring convention over configuration. So you need to follow the conventions of the framework to avoid fighting with it. For example, with MVC, naming a controller XXXController isn't just

RE: vs 2010 and 2012

2013-01-15 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Another is that the SQL BI projects are still all VS2010 based. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: http://www.sqldownunder.com/ www.sqldownunder.com From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com

RE: vs 2010 and 2012

2013-01-15 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
(slightly less opaque DTS/SSRS and more forgi\ving ) environment On 16 January 2013 11:20, Greg Low (GregLow.com) g...@greglow.com mailto:g...@greglow.com wrote: Another is that the SQL BI projects are still all VS2010 based. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775

RE: vs 2010 and 2012

2013-01-14 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
+1 Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: http://www.sqldownunder.com/ www.sqldownunder.com From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Michael

RE: More on cross-platform development

2013-01-04 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Well said David. One thing I'd like to add to the conversation though is that I see people all the time that consider their mobile interfaces as a low functionality add-on to the real application. While I've dealt with mobile apps that way in the past, I'm increasingly changing my view.

RE: SQL Reports driving me nuts

2012-12-13 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Hey Stuart, Which version are you using? Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: http://www.sqldownunder.com/ www.sqldownunder.com From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com

RE: SQL Reports driving me nuts

2012-12-13 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
. But setting the row visibility did not do anything different - Arrgh ! Anyway, I've come across another article suggesting a static row group. This I'll try tomorrow when I've cooled down a bit. - Stuart On 13 December 2012 21:12, Greg Low (GregLow.com) g...@greglow.com mailto:g

Azure Websites WebAPI Authentication

2012-10-15 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Hi Folks, What's the best way to provide authentication for REST services exposed by MVC4 WebAPI within Windows Azure Websites? Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low CEO and Principal Mentor SQL Down Under SQL Server MVP and Microsoft Regional Director 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office |

RE: Azure Websites WebAPI Authentication

2012-10-15 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
combined with Https. Something like http://remy.supertext.ch/2012/04/basic-http-authorization-for-web-api-in-mvc-4-beta/ Craig On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Greg Low (GregLow.com) g...@greglow.com wrote: Hi Folks, What’s the best way to provide authentication for REST

Hyper-V on Windows 8

2012-10-13 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Hi Folks, I'm loving having Hyper-V available in the client with Windows 8. However, one of the reasons that I used to use VirtualBox instead is that it could deal with different screen resolutions when you used Connect. Anyone know any way to actually use the full screen with Hyper-V

RE: Powershell script ?

2012-09-29 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
exactly this (and lots more besides). http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ Cheers, Andrew _ From: Greg Low (GregLow.com) Sent: 29/09/2012 12:35 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: FW: Powershell script ? Hi Folks, I want to set the Title property of all the mp4 files in a folder to their file name. ie

RE: Powershell script ?

2012-09-29 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
; ozDotNet Subject: RE: Powershell script ? Hi Greg, There's an excellent bit of freeware called, from memory, MP3Tag that can do exactly this (and lots more besides). http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ Cheers, Andrew _ From: Greg Low (GregLow.com) Sent: 29/09/2012 12:35 PM To: 'ozDotNet

RE: VNC over wireless vs cabled

2012-09-20 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
on the wireless interface? Does it work if the projector is connected to a wired port, and the clients are on the WiFi? From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Low (GregLow.com) Sent: Thursday, 20 September 2012 3:12 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject

RE: VNC over wireless vs cabled

2012-09-20 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
support adhoc connections? Maybe you can dispense with the router all together? cheers, Stephen On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Greg Low (GregLow.com) g...@greglow.com wrote: Hi Folks, If I use Tight VNC Projector to project my screen using VNC over UDP 5982 with wired connections

RE: VNC over wireless vs cabled

2012-09-20 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
] On Behalf Of Greg Low (GregLow.com) Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 7:40 PM To: 'Ken Schaefer'; 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: VNC over wireless vs cabled Hi Ken, Good question for #1. Can't find any reference to it in the setup or in the manual. For #2, answer is no at present. Mind you

RE: VNC over wireless vs cabled

2012-09-20 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
, but you gotta pay for it. It's nicely cross platform too. Sent from a Phone Original message Subject: RE: VNC over wireless vs cabled From: Greg Low (GregLow.com) g...@greglow.com To: 'Ian Thomas' il.tho...@iinet.net.au,'ozDotNet' ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com CC: Hi Ian, Yes

RE: VNC over wireless vs cabled

2012-09-20 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
vs cabled From: Greg Low (GregLow.com) g...@greglow.com To: 'Ian Thomas' il.tho...@iinet.net.au,'ozDotNet' ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com CC: Hi Ian, Yes, I came to Tight VNC by looking at VLC Media Player. It really feels like it shouldn’t be rocket science to try to do this. It seems insane

RE: VNC over wireless vs cabled

2012-09-20 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
: RE: VNC over wireless vs cabled From: Greg Low (GregLow.com) g...@greglow.com To: 'Ian Thomas' il.tho...@iinet.net.au,'ozDotNet' ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com CC: Hi Ian, Yes, I came to Tight VNC by looking at VLC Media Player. It really feels like it shouldn’t be rocket science to try to do

VNC over wireless vs cabled

2012-09-19 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Hi Folks, If I use Tight VNC Projector to project my screen using VNC over UDP 5982 with wired connections to a router, all is good. But if I try to do that using a wireless connection to the same router, I'm having no luck at all. Any ideas on this? I can't see anything blocked in the

RE: SQL Server feature or a bug?

2012-08-19 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Hi Jano, That's just not how it works. SQL Server has deferred name resolution. For tables that exist, it tries to check for cannot check those that it doesn't know about. For example, try the following: USE tempdb; GO CREATE PROC dbo.AccessNoSuchTable AS SELECT NoSuchColumn FROM

Anyone clever with RSS feeds?

2012-08-15 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Hi Folks, When I view the following feed in IE: http://www.sqldownunder.com/SQLDownUnderMP3Feed.xml the feed view puts show 36 first. I've stared at it for ages and can't for the life of me work out what's different about that entry. While you're at it, if anyone is good with iTunes, I'd

RE: Anyone clever with RSS feeds?

2012-08-15 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
correctly. I guess IE prioritizes the episodes with known publish dates. Not sure about the itunes issue. That's not my arena ;) Michael M. Minutillo Indiscriminate Information Sponge http://codermike.com On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Greg Low (GregLow.com) g...@greglow.com wrote: Hi

RE: One one way sync from sql to sql thru webservice?

2012-08-06 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
] On Behalf Of Greg Low (GregLow.com) Sent: Saturday, 4 August 2012 12:11 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: One one way sync from sql to sql thru webservice? I'd be tempted to use a small SQL Azure database and configure a data sync group. That way, both of your servers can reach out to a common place

RE: One one way sync from sql to sql thru webservice?

2012-08-03 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
to sql thru webservice? Sorry been out of office all week, wish to about 1000 thousand records a day one way. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Low (GregLow.com) Sent: Thursday, 2 August 2012 4:16 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: One one

RE: One one way sync from sql to sql thru webservice?

2012-08-02 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
How much data is involved? Is it a one-off or a regular thing? Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: http://www.sqldownunder.com/ www.sqldownunder.com From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com

RE: [OT] Detect ADSL modem in use

2012-07-30 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
That does look quick. I’m in a populated area well served by cable so it looks like the NBN is going to be some time away for me. It’s interesting to see how other countries are going though. A colleague was recently in a hotel in Chile and had 250Mb/s down and 220 up, to a US-based hub,

RE: ASP.NET modal dialog effect

2012-07-17 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Hi Greg, Are you writing the javascript directly or using jquery? Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: http://www.sqldownunder.com/ www.sqldownunder.com From:

RE: ASP.NET modal dialog effect

2012-07-16 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Hi Greg, Along with what the other guys have said, I'd add a vote for try to avoid the need for anything modal if possible. Is there any way to avoid the need for it to be modal? Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913

RE: sql connection taking ages when using IP Address vs Computer Name

2012-06-07 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Sorry, have been offline but I'm with Stephen others that it sounds like a routing issue. Try a tracert to the server. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: http://www.sqldownunder.com/

RE: [OT] It's not Friday, but I've had a tough last 3 weeks ...

2012-06-06 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Most are also paid on how quickly they process calls. I see lots of people tell them that they need to talk to X where X is some random name and that they'll put them through to them but then just put them on hold permanently seems to work well at stopping them coming back too often.

RE: Free eBooks (Microsoft Press)

2012-05-31 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
: MYEP9 It will drop 50% off Jiri From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Low (GregLow.com) Sent: Thursday, 31 May 2012 6:50 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: Free eBooks (Microsoft Press) Sweet. Thanks for the link Grant. Regards

RE: Application Interface Options for Integration

2012-05-14 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Hi Michael, Have you considered SQL Server Service Broker? It would provide you with a transacted queue between the SQL Server databases. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web:

RE: Selecting data stored using FileStream in SQl Server

2012-05-12 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Hi Stuart, Take a look at the ADO.NET samples here for reading varbinary(max) columns: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb399384.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb399384.aspx (in particular, GetSqlBinary and GetBytes). Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL

Blog module for DNN 6

2012-05-02 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Anyone got a recommendation for a high quality blog module for DNN? Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low CEO and Principal Mentor SQL Down Under SQL Server MVP and Microsoft Regional Director 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax Web:

RE: Powerpoint pain

2012-04-17 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
] On Behalf Of Greg Low (GregLow.com) Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 1:01 PM To: 'Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)'; 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: Powerpoint pain Hi Andrew, Thanks. That seems to do basic stuff with fonts but not sizes, etc. It just seems a real pity that there isn't just way of having

RE: Powerpoint pain

2012-04-16 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Low (GregLow.com) Sent: Thursday, 12 April 2012 4:34 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: Powerpoint pain Hi Peter, Thanks but that (unfortunately), has options to “Use destination format”, “Use

RE: Powerpoint pain

2012-04-12 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
is: 1. Select All, 2. Copy 3. File New Powerpoint with your favourite template 4. Paste .peter.gfader. (current mood = happy-go-lucky) http://blog.gfader.com 2012/4/11 Greg Low (GregLow.com) g...@greglow.com Thanks Ian and all. I’ve just gone and copied (via Notepad) all

Powerpoint pain

2012-04-11 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Hi Folks, One thing I've always wanted to know about PowerPoint is how you can take a slide with rubbish fonts, colours, etc. and say make this look like the fonts, etc. in the slide master ie: how do you lose the custom formatting? Thanks in advance. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low

RE: Powerpoint pain

2012-04-11 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
click with the format painter too iirc On Apr 11, 2012 5:59 PM, Greg Low (GregLow.com) g...@greglow.com wrote: Hi Folks, One thing I’ve always wanted to know about PowerPoint is how you can take a slide with rubbish fonts, colours, etc. and say “make this look like the fonts, etc

RE: Powerpoint pain

2012-04-11 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Low (GregLow.com) Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 4:41 PM To: 'David Connors'; 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: Powerpoint pain Hi David, The issue is that I can't find anything on the toolbar that seems to do this. What I'm looking for is the equivalent

RE: File/folder sync options for Windows

2012-04-08 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
for Windows Greg, I use some software call 2nd copy (www.secondcopy.com), let you do one-way or two-way sync. I have been using it to sync my MSDN to an external drive for a couple of years now. Bill Chesnut BizTalk Server MVP Melbourne, Australia _ From: Greg Low (GregLow.com

Weird spooler error on Windows 7

2012-04-07 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Hi Folks, I'm having a weird spooler issue on one of our Windows 7 machines. If I leave the spooler service running, it constantly sends the same file again and again to one of the network printers (a big Kyocera box). I even removed the printer (logical printer) from the devices list and

RE: Weird spooler error on Windows 7

2012-04-07 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
network printer, comparing the registry settings. Worth a try? _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia _ From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Low (GregLow.com) Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2012 11:07 PM To: 'ozDotNet

File/folder sync options for Windows

2012-04-06 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Hi Folks, Anyone got recommendations for file sync? Just a couple of PCs that want to share one or more folders between them and also to a NAS that they both can access. Happy for the main folder to live on the NAS and for the other two PCs to sync with it. I spent time today looking at

RE: Win 8 Tablet

2012-04-01 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Used MagicISO for many years and very happy with it. (And it's free) Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: http://www.sqldownunder.com/ www.sqldownunder.com From:

RE: Making an application that uses identity keysoccassionally connected

2012-02-09 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Kirsten _ From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Low (GregLow.com) Sent: Monday, 6 February 2012 2:16 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: Making an application that uses identity keysoccassionally connected Hi Greg, The point I

RE: Making an application that uses identity keysoccassionally connected

2012-02-09 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
ints or bigints all over the place, and just have one table that maps between them. ? Does SQL Server have some sort of in built process we could piggy back? Thanks Kirsten _ From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Low (GregLow.com

RE: Making an application that uses identity keys occassionally connected

2012-02-05 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Hi Greg, The point I was making is that the main reason for using GUIDs is so that the code that creates an object can assign an ID to it without having to reference a single allocator for IDs. I could have five servers and four apps and they can all happily create values and related objects

RE: Making an application that uses identity keys occassionallyconnected

2012-02-03 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
The problem with NEWSEQUENTIALID is that it fixes the wrong problem. One of the main reasons for using GUIDs in the first place is so they can be generated in other layers of code (and potentially other servers) and then just thrown into the database. If you are going to the database to get a

RE: Web Development

2011-08-09 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Also, while doing that, make sure you spend quite a bit of time looking at other people's code. The mindset needed is quite different. Regards, Greg From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Schultz Sent: Wednesday, 10 August 2011

RE: [OT] Renting a data projector

2011-07-15 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Hi Greg, J As an aside, for someone starting with T-SQL, the first book that Itzik had in that series is probably more appropriate: Inside T-SQL: Fundamentals - http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft%C2%AE-Server%C2%AE-T-SQL-Fundamentals-PRO-De veloper/dp/0735626014/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8

RE: SQL CLR table as function parameter

2011-06-29 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
That can work quite well but be careful if you're using the .nodes() method in T-SQL to provide the table to join to. It doesn't have cardinality estimates (actually it guesses 10,000 rows) and can end up with some seriously badly performing query plans. Often we have to use it to extract the data

RE: Calling out to all you geeks to help me buy\build a machine (preferably laptop) that can support following System Requirements.

2011-06-09 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Hi Stuart, Have you checked with them about bios upgrades? We got a bunch of Dell machines a while back that had the same limitation but after a bios upgrade, all good. Regards, Greg From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stuart

RE: Sudden violent death of SSDs

2011-06-02 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Which types of drives Ken? Regards, Greg -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 3:25 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: Sudden violent death of SSDs I've had two that have ended up like

RE: SSD minimum size question

2011-05-17 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
weight. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Low (GregLow.com) Sent: Friday, 13 May 2011 8:40 PM To: 'Stephen Price'; 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: SSD minimum size question Lenovo W701 - two normal

RE: SSD minimum size question

2011-05-17 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
: SSD minimum size question Doing a build? (not that I'm suggesting a build would take that long. maybe a CI build) How long does it take, vs a spinning drive build? On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Greg Low (GregLow.com) g...@greglow.com wrote: In all seriousness, it does run on battery

RE: SSD minimum size question

2011-05-13 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Hi Tony, I've put 3 of the new Crucial M4 512G's into my notebook and have been *really* happy with them. Regards, Greg From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Tony Wright Sent: Friday, 13 May 2011 12:43 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE:

RE: SSD minimum size question

2011-05-13 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
, what? You have a laptop that has three hard drives in it? What laptop is that? On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Greg Low (GregLow.com) g...@greglow.com wrote: Hi Tony, I’ve put 3 of the new Crucial M4 512G’s into my notebook and have been *really* happy with them. Regards, Greg From

RE: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-05-05 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
And you just need one of these inside it :-) http://www.crucial.com/store/listmodule/SSD/~524288~/list.html Regards, Greg -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA) Sent: Friday, 6 May 2011

RE: [OT] SQL Server Windows Authentication - New Clue

2011-03-23 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
You need to create a login for the YourDomain\SQLAdmins group and assign it permissions in the databases via the User Mappings tab. HTH, Greg From: Greg Keogh [mailto:g...@mira.net] Sent: Thursday, 24 March 2011 2:30 PM To: g...@greglow.com; 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: [OT] SQL Server

RE: [OT] SQL Server Windows Authentication

2011-03-22 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Hi Greg/Grant, The issue isn't whether or not the service account has access to the files, it's whether or not it's been granted permission to access the server and the databases. Open SSMS and make sure it's configured as a Login and also that the Login has access to the database.

RE: SQL Server report scheduling

2011-03-15 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Officially it's required for data-driven subscriptions but not for standard subscriptions. However, there are ways around it: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/greg_low/archive/2008/08/13/data-driven-subscriptio ns-in-sql-server-2005-standard-edition.aspx Regards, Greg From:

RE: Avoiding SQL Server 'sysadmin' accounts

2011-01-23 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
In most cases, you'll be better to do a combination of what's been suggested. I wouldn't base new designs on fixed database roles. The doco already says Fixed database roles are provided for convenience and backward compatibility. That's product-group-speak for we're going to make these go

RE: [OT] WP7 Handset/device

2010-11-07 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Handset/device Hi Greg, Did you have a phone (or phones) that do sync well with Outlook, regardless of whether you're wirelessly connected? Regards, Tony -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Low (GregLow.com) Sent

RE: sql server 2008 change data capture and friends

2010-09-15 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
A better option for this is to use DDL triggers. They have a few limitations but I'm sure they'd cover almost all the options that have been mentioned. Regards, Greg From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Tiang Cheng Sent: Wednesday, 15

RE: sql server 2008 change data capture and friends

2010-09-15 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
, Sep 15, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Greg Low (GregLow.com) g...@greglow.com wrote: A better option for this is to use DDL triggers. They have a few limitations but I'm sure they'd cover almost all the options that have been mentioned. Are you, or have you seen this, actually being done? Or is this just how

Win Phone 7 RTM

2010-09-01 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Interesting to note that Windows Phone 7 went to RTM this morning. Regards, Greg

RE: [OT] SQL injection attack vectors

2010-08-31 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
A lot of the attacks I have seen have also been on systems that have been around for quite a while. They’re working fine so no-one is looking to upgrade them. But they were often built with coding techniques that are now considered inappropriate. It’s hard to give them a hard time though, as

RE: [OT] MYOB and SQL Server security

2010-08-14 Thread Greg Low (greglow.com)
Hi Greg, Just stop the service, copy the mdf and ldf files to another place and reattach them to another instance where you are admin. Regards, Greg From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Sunday, 15 August 2010 9:42

RE: Batching ids for submitting to a stored proc

2010-07-13 Thread Greg Low (greglow.com)
There are good relevant discussions re this on Erland's site: http://www.sommarskog.se/ Regards, Greg From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Tony Wright Sent: Wednesday, 14 July 2010 10:49 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: Batching ids for

RE: Advice for Data Access - Hibernate/Linq/Fluent/etc

2010-07-13 Thread Greg Low (greglow.com)
It also gave you a 1:1 table to object mapping. End result is usually either a lousy database design or a lousy object model. Regards, Greg From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Wednesday, 14 July 2010 1:03 PM To:

RE: [OT] Friday - Conway (or.. Labor govt) once againdelaysInternet Filter

2010-07-12 Thread Greg Low (greglow.com)
Yes, sorry, it wasn’t meant as a “Don’t buy Chinese” comment. In fact, quite the opposite - I’m endlessly having that discussion with my mother ie: we need to buy things from them if we want them to buy from coal, etc. from us. It just seems to me that having a hand-out of money to people

RE: [OT] Friday - Conway (or.. Labor govt) once againdelaysInternet Filter

2010-07-12 Thread Greg Low (greglow.com)
Many of my European friends think it’s hilarious that we pay for traffic at all. It’s this sort of thing though that’s built into the cost structures of all our businesses and makes them less competitive in the global market. Mind you, we’ve been paying through the nose for a long time. I

RE: [OT] Friday - Conway (or.. Labor govt) once againdelaysInternet Filter

2010-07-11 Thread Greg Low (greglow.com)
Or as hand-outs to the general population who use it to buy goods from China... -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Monday, 12 July 2010 2:24 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Friday - Conway (or..

RE: Microsoft Songsmith - Is it friday yet?

2010-07-01 Thread Greg Low (greglow.com)
Hi Joseph, No, she completed her PhD some time back. Recently she's been working on a secret advanced age-reversing technology as well. That project has backfired though and after she brushed against that guy's notebook, it started growing that odd looking flowering virus on the lid.

RE: Embedding SQL index hints into SQL commands for SQL SERVER.

2010-06-22 Thread Greg Low (greglow.com)
Execution Plan. Just some thoughts. Corneliu. On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Greg Low (greglow.com) g...@greglow.com wrote: Hi Peter, In general, if the indexing is ok, the amount of data in the table (within reason) is not really an issue. That's still a *relatively* small table

RE: Friday [OT] (Sound Experts) Request for Sound Clening

2010-05-27 Thread Greg Low (greglow.com)
Camtasia does a great job of this. Just import the wmv info a project, edit the audio (including cleanup, noise reduction, etc.) and then produce the new file. HTH, Greg From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Joseph Clark Sent: Friday,

RE: [OT] Toner hell

2010-05-16 Thread Greg Low (greglow.com)
Hi Greg, We do a ton of printing and have tried a lot of options. Based on our per page costs (where we estimated the total running costs), we currently love the Brother 4050CDN. The *only* way to buy spare parts for it is to buy whole printers. It’s insane but that’s how it goes. I’ve

RE: benefits of using vs 2010

2010-05-11 Thread Greg Low (greglow.com)
Too true Mitch. Unfortunately, most of the folk I know that used to submit a lot of bugs and suggestions have stopped doing so. There are way too many by design responses. And most suggestions (rather than bugs) have no response until the product is about to ship, then they come back with