SpaceMonger

Nowdays this tool is commercial, but you can download the last free version (1.40) on their website.

However, I recently found a way, to bypass this security measure. I must say is for sure the worst solution in terms of security, but if you need to make a few tests inside your LAN, then maybe there wouldn’t harm your server.

So, the trick is dumb and simple, disable the authentication on your SSAS server (yes I know what you must be thinking, oh my god, that sucks!). But a least I had told you that before .

How you can disable the authentication ?. Simply, Open your SSMS , right click on the server -> Properties ->change the value of Security\RequireClient Authentication to false.

That’s it, but remember to turn this setting to true  after testing the remote server, otherwise the server’s security will be compromised.

In case your linksys router seems to be a brick, you have to calm down and try this few steps, they have worked for me.

1. Connect your machine with the router using a ethernet cable (Disconnect the router from the internet);

2. Edit your connections settings in order to have an IP address like 192.168.1.2 (e.g) and the gateway 192.168.1.1;

3. Now, your router is pingable;

4. You need to activate your TFTP client (go to control panel, add/remove features) and activate this feature;

5. Now, you need to transfer the firmware from your PC to the router, how ?, just with one command!

tftp -i 192.168.1.1 PUT code.bin code.bin

where ‘code.bin’ is the TFTP version of the firmware, go to the DDWRT website (e.g) and download it.

6. After a minute (more or less) your power button stops flashing, and that’s it.

Your router is no longer a brick, and in fact it’s alive!!

Tool to generate the classes from a database automatically

Microsoft Entity Framework – Microsoft Best Practice

So, don’t forget to add the new alias, when you are planning to move your DNN site, somewhere else.

See the picture bellow:

Solution ?

1. Log on as Win Authenticated user

2. Open the ‘master’ DB and type:

sp_password @old = null, @new = ‘lisber’,  @loginame =’sa’

ALTER LOGIN sa ENABLE
That should be enough

PD:

1) Some users have been writing that ‘For unlocking SA, you just have to connect as a machine administrator to the server, as you observed. The machine administrators are by default granted access to SQL Server’

2)I know that using the ‘sa’ is not recommendable, we must create users with the minimum permissions in order to perform their actions, so avoiding using the ‘sa’ principal. We must never forget that.

I made the 70-431 Test in order to get the ‘Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist – SQL Server 2005′ , to get the MCTS you need to achive a minimum of 70% in your final score!.

What’s next ? BI Certification !! that’s the next target

After using Seven for several hours i found it, easy to use. Visually appealing, but is not a miracle and it won’t change the OS world.

Microsoft put so much effort on the Vista performance issue, the boot loading time is faster than vista, the programs seems to be loading rapidly. I’m Seven comes with plenty of drivers, it was not necessary to find any driver there was all built in. Awesome!

Things i noticed:

• The preview on movies (yeah Mac OS have this feature for long time ….)
• The Stack (Well it’s called this way on OS 10.5)
• Paint is  improved
• The power Button finally is a ‘Shut down Button’ from default (One of the major mistakes on Win Vista User Interaction)

So they take Vista clean the mess and comes with a new fresh OS.

winseven

Performance!!!!

These tinny row by row misters, can make your SS claim for more RAM or put your processor in a nonsense processing.

Instead of them i prefer temp Tables, yeah there is some drawbacks, like locks supports that are part of cursors (Dynamic and Keyset).

So when i need to use a row by row analysis to a rowSet i use temp tables and the Select INTO statement, so there is no need to create Table statement aside of the query, just put it all together and run. For example:

SELECT AlunoID

INTO #MyTempTable

FROM Aluno

WHERE Gender = ‘F’

Remember that when the connection holding this query is closed the MyTempTable will disappear, also remember that all temp Tables are created within the tempDB.

To avoid some dirty reads, it’s better to use some lock mechanism. (to be totally sure, use the serializable lock). It never fails…..