SQL 2005 error: Generating user instances in SQL …

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Server Error in '/' Application. Generating user instances in SQL Server is disabled. Use sp_configure 'user instances enabled' to generate user instances.Solution: exec sp_configure 'user instances enabled', 1. Reconfigure Restart the SQL Server

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Create an easy backup and maintenance plan on SQL Server 2005 Express Edition

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

SQL Express fully supports backing up a database. What it does not have is SQL Agent, which allows you to schedule backups and the Maintenance Plan wizard which allows you to create a plan to perform a number of tasks, including backup. I found an interesting article "Automating Database maintenance in ...

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Uptime on Windows

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Almost every unix operating system comes with a utility called uptime that tells you how long your server has been running. Unfortunitly no such tool comes with windows, but there is a pretty fool proof way to determine the date you computer was last started. Type the following in to the ...

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PDF indexing in Sharepoint 2007

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Introduction By default the SharePoint 2007 Search indexed only the meta data of a PDF document. By installing and configuring a PDF IFilter the Search will also index the contents of the PDF document. This allows users to find documents based on text inside the document. This process is called full ...

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.NET 3.5 framework: Child nodes are not allowed

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

After installing the new .net framework (i need it because I’m creating my project in Visual Studio 2008) the website wouldn’t run. It gave following error: ”parse Error: Child nodes are not allowed” This error occurs when you attempt to run an application using .NET framework 2.0 or 3.0 and your Microsoft ...

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