Tech4Him

Okay gang. We are still working out the details for some permanent 301 redirects for the existing posts, but from now on you can find our blog at our new address of http://blog.tech4him.com.

The first and obvious question is “Why did you move it?”. Simple answer. We wanted to. :) Now that’s not a good enough answer though.

Yes, okay, call me a dolt for having to take five minutes to find this but I’ve seen this question asked so many places I figured I’d throw it up here.

In Visual Studio 2008 when working on a SQL Server Reporting Services report, you may find that you want to change the order in which the parameters are listed to the end user. Or perhaps you are using unnamed parameters, such as with ODBC, and need to change the order for token replacement in your query. Well in 2008 this is not where you expected it to be if coming from 2005.

Just stumbled across another temporary email service called Melt Mail. It’s a simple interface. What I liked most is that you pick up front the length of time the temporary email address should forward mail to you. Your choices are 3,6,12 and 23 hours. Short, sweet, effective.

Today was a great day. First off, the good Lord gave me another day on Earth to do His work. That’s a good start. I also came across a KB article from MediaTemple that provide great hope of some performance improvement on our grid service (gs) account. Now I came across this as a result of researching performance optmizations for Drupal on their dedicated virtuals (dv) that some of my clients sites run on.

As we move down this SQL Server 2008 upgrade road I am trying to learn from previous projects of other versions and not take anything for granted. So, I am taking the time to research upgrade paths and issues as we look at moving forward.

First I needed to check and see if there is a supported upgrade path from SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition Evaluation to the full licensed product. Indeed there is according to this MSDN article.