Donny Mack : February 2004

I'm Gonna Be At TechEd Images Ready For Use!

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2004 1:00 PM by DonnyMack

Are you going to TechEd, well let the world know by using one of the official TechEd images. Matt Nunn has asked us to put them up for your use. Here are links to them:

Here is where you can find all of them: http://www.sqljunkies.com/WebLog/Images/TechEd2004/ (Directory Browsing Enabled) and here they are:

MSDE 2000 Deployment Toolkit

posted Friday, February 20, 2004 10:02 AM by DonnyMack

Stefano Demiliani posts on MSDE 2000 Deployment Toolkit (RC)

References:
Post: http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/demiliani/archive/2004/02/20/7652.aspx
Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6e9a7403-c4ba-4d98-bb0b-2c9d6414071f&displaylang=en#filelist

Post not about SQL Server, but Let's Make it!

posted Thursday, February 19, 2004 8:46 AM by DonnyMack

I read Darrell Norton's latest post entitled My Worst Database Experience Ever - he was speaking of Access and VBA code, and others responded with horror stories of the same. I'd like to see what type of horror stories we can come up with SQL Server. Anyone have an interesting story for us. Enterprise level horror stories would be really great :-) Unfortunately, I know that due to NDA's most probably can't talk about them, but if you could - YES!

A tool is available to remove the Mydoom and Doomjuice worm variants

posted Monday, February 16, 2004 10:12 AM by DonnyMack

Microsoft has released a tool to help you remove the Mydoom and Doomjuice worm variants from your computer. If you are running an English (US) version of Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 (SP2) or later, or a 32-bit version of Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, The Windows Update Web site and Automatic Updates will offer you version 2.0 of the Mydoom Worm Removal Tool if your computer appears to be infected with Mydoom.A, Mydoom.B, or Doomjuice.A. Version 3.0 of the Mydoom Worm Removal Tool adds support for removing the Doomjuice.B worm. Version 3.0 is available from the Microsoft Download Center. Localized versions of the Mydoom Worm Removal Tool are only available for English (US). However, you can run the English (US) tool on any localized version of Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennium Edition (Me), Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 (SP2) or above, or a 32-bit version of Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. The Mydoom Worm Removal Tool does not work on computers that run Microsoft Windows NT 4.0.

Searching Within Individual Blogs

posted Tuesday, February 10, 2004 8:27 AM by DonnyMack

Just got an email from Scott who saw my post on Searching and mentioned another really cool edition. Searching within blogs themselves. For any one blog you can go to blogName/search.aspx and search the individual blog. I'll be adding links within blogs today to their search.

New Build is Up

posted Saturday, February 07, 2004 12:38 PM by DonnyMack

Ok, new build is up. Please let me know if you see anything abnormal. I'll be adding Search next week sometime which will be very cool! Some things I'll point out is there is now RSS feeds for just about everything. We also have filtering capibilities - currently there is just MS Bloggers VS. Non-MS Bloggers - but if you would like me to start a new category let me know. For instance, if you just write about DTS i can create a DTS bloggers. Beyond those you can check out http://dottextwiki.scottwater.com/default.aspx/Dottext.CoreFeatures

Thanks

Delay in New Build

posted Friday, February 06, 2004 8:57 PM by DonnyMack

Due to the strangest issue both Scott and I have ever seen in ASP.NET we're delayed in releasing the new build of .Text. After we figure out the solution I'll explain.

Sorry for the delay, and to all those waiting for their new blog to propogate. Please be patient, I was planning on creating them with the new build but if we still don't have the issue resolved by Sunday I'll get you going!

Thanks