December 2009

Blackberry Messenger Causes Data Outage

It appears that the latest release of the BlackBerry Messenger application is the root cause of a major outage on Tuesday. The outage caused users to be unable to use the data services on their phones. This caused all data services including email to be unavailable.

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VMware “Operation Failed Since Another Task Is In Progress”

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I had a coworker run into an interesting VMware issue today and wanted to share. The Problem We had a VM that was ‘frozen’ it showed that it was running but it was not responding.  After trying to force restart the VM with no luck he went looking for a solution. The Solution Because this [...]

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P90X Lifestyle Transformation

I am a Technology Consultant and sit in a cubicle all day. While I was happy with my life I missed the competition of the field. About 6 months ago, with the blessing of my wife, I started playing rugby with the Houston Athletic Rugby Club (HARC). After working out with the team over the summer and practice in the fall I find my self very out of shape, hardly being able to finish one half of play. After 6 months I realized that while I have a better knowledge of how to exercice than most my body has changed from what I was taught and I realized I needed help. With some friends like Kim M… reporting amazing results from the P90X program I decided to give it a shot.

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Site picked up for Syndication

I am pleased to announce that jonathanagardner.com has been picked up for syndication on SQLServerPedia.com.  A special thanks to Brent Ozar Blog|Twitter for helping me make this happen.  Our first posts can be found here…

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Using Joins instead of Sub Queries: a Case Study

During a recent upgrade from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005 some poorly written code was exposed on a custom web application. Users and developers started reporting that their applications were timing out. One of the queries I posted in the Execution Plan Challenge. Another exposed query involved a sub query.

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Microsoft Project 2010

Microsoft has released Project 2010 in a beta release.  For those interested in testing there are some compatibility issues that exist.  Project 2010 is not compatible with Project Server 2007.  The Pert Add-in has been removed.  And much more.  Read more on the Project Team’s Blog here…

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