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What we can learn from the Foursquare outage

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In the world of mobile location based services, it does not get any bigger thanFoursquare. On October 6th, 2010, they experienced an 11-hour outage that was caused by unknown errors encountered while adding a new shard to the database. While Foursquare is not a business critical application, their outage gives those of us who do support [...]

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19 iPad Applications for Business Users

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Everyday more and more iPads show up in boardrooms across the globe. While many classify the iPad as a consumer device, corporate IT departments are going have to support them. Below I have created a list of iPad applications that can be leveraged by business users. To read my full list of applications check out [...]

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Insource Blog Release

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Today marked the official release of blog.insource.com, the corporate blog for Insource Technology, and my employer. I started working on this project a little over 6 months ago with a team of dedicated team to make this site a reality. Being the de facto Editor-in-Chief, this project has been my baby and it is a [...]

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Serving Office 2007 Docx Filetypes from an Apache Server

I recently worked on a project for my employer, Insource Technology, to develop a corporate blog. As the project progressed we ran into an interesting problem. An author would upload a .docx file to the site without an issue. When the file was downloaded it would not download as a .docx file but as a [...]

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SQLSaturday #57, Houston

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As Cochair of the planning committee I am very pleased to announce that we are officially having a SQLSaturday in Houston. The event will be on January 29th, 2011 at the Bammel Church of Christ. Co Chairs Jonathan Gardner (Blog|Twitter) Malik Al-Amin (Blog|Twitter) Nancy Hidy Wilson (Twitter) Information We have created a Twitter account @SQLSatHou [...]

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Running Visual Studio 2010 Generated Deployment Scripts in SSMS

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Previously we discussed how to use the Database Deployment feature in Visual Studio 2010. There are two options to deploy a database project. The first is to have Visual Studio deploy the scripts automatically. The second is to have Visual Studio build a deployment script that can be run via SQL Server Management Studio or [...]

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