Friday, June 01, 2007 - Posts

New super Dual Core laptop with hybrid drive or solid state drive

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In preperation for working on my own I have just purchased a new laptop from Zepto . The laptop is the latest is intel based dual core laptop. It will be loaded with 4Gb of Ram, a 160Gb hybrid hard drive and a 512Mb graphics card. You can see more details here

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posted Friday, June 01, 2007 10:15 PM by SimonSabin with 0 Comments

SQL 2005 install hangs on "Setting File Security"

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When doing an install of SQL 2005 you may encounter the install hanging on the "setting file security" stage.

This is due to th install trying to do some security resolution with domain controllers.

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posted Friday, June 01, 2007 4:55 PM by SimonSabin with 0 Comments

Reporting Services - How to rotate text on a report

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I've been trying to do this for a long time and even looked into writing some CLR code that would take some text and produce a graphic of the text rotated.

Well all my prayers have been answered by a colleague of mine. Thanks Andrew.

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posted Friday, June 01, 2007 10:55 AM by SimonSabin with 0 Comments