Monthly Archives: May 2009

Tampa Bay SQL User Group Meeting tomorrow night!

Posted on May 18, 2009 by Jorge Segarra Leave a comment

Tampa Bay SQL User Group Meeting starts at 6:30 pm. Directions to meeting Date: 5/19/2009 Topic: Getting Started with SQL Server Profiler Speakers: Jack Corbett Location: Franklin Templeton Buidling Description:Jack Corbett will present Getting Started with SQL Server Profiler. We … Continue reading →

Syndicated, Syndication

Got Corruption?

Posted on May 12, 2009 by Jorge Segarra 1 Comment

So today I’ve been dealing with one hellacious case of database corruption and thanks to the beauty of social networking I was able to get help from SQL Jedi-master Paul Randal. I’ll post my entire in an upcoming post but … Continue reading →

Syndicated, Syndication

PowerShell: Giving in to the Inevitable?

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Jorge Segarra 1 Comment

Here’s a quick question posed to my technical brethren: Have you drank the PowerShell Kool-Aid yet? I’ve sat back and tested the waters here and there and I see that you can do some pretty cool stuff with it but … Continue reading →

Poll, PowerShell, SQL Server, Syndicated, Syndication

How to Kill a Stuck VM in ESX 3.5

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Jorge Segarra 1 Comment

This morning my VM’s decided to become schizophrenic and stop opening consoles. Virtual Center showed the VM’s as still running but some weren’t responding to pings, some were but all had this error when trying to connect via console: error … Continue reading →

Tips, vmware

Got an Installation Stuck in a Loop?

Posted on May 6, 2009 by Jorge Segarra Leave a comment

Today I was troubleshooting an issue where an MSI is constantly trying to install itself on the server but cannot find the files needed to complete the install. The errors encountered were the following: Source: MsiInstallerEvent ID: 1001 Detection of … Continue reading →

Tips, Windows