Oracle VirtualBox 4.2.18 released!
VirtualBox has a special place in my heart as it comes with a nice graphical user interface and we can try a lot of new software in Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris hosts. Best of all, VirtualBox supports a variety of hardware and pass on its benefits to virtual machines, so for example, we can …
Password master
Passwords certainly can be hard to remember. The best tend to be those that use memorable words that we alter to follow rules, for example: ‘f@Th3r’ (e becomes ‘3’, @ becomes ‘a’ and ‘t’ is a capital ‘T’). However, using different password for every single web service we use and every machine we log in …
Certified Data Centre Professional
Today I received an email from Exin that I passed my exam of Certified Data Centre Professional that I took on 27th of August, 2013.
Disaster Recovery
Background Power Outage occurred quite frequent in Malaysia especially in year 2013. Refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_outages_in_Malaysia, there were 4 times of blackout between May, June and July 2013. Disaster recovery is different from Disaster avoidance. DA is about how to prevent a disaster (no downtime), and in the other side, DR is about how to recover …
Cyberlink Power2Go 8
I came across with the needs to burn Blue-ray disk and system backup for my machine Asus Support team recommend me to use Cyberlink Power2Go 8 for Windows 7, and apparently this software is simply cracked due to many hackers are keen to use many utilities on their 15 days trial version, and its multiple …
VMware KB Articles
List of VMware KB Articles Unable to upgrade existing VMware Tools (1001354) Troubleshooting an unresponsive host and multiple Disconnected virtual machines (1019082) VMware ESXi 5.0, Patch Release ESXi500-201209001 (2032584) Understanding vSphere 5.1 network rollback and recovery (2032908)
Setting Up Windows Server 2012 Domain Controller
In order to make the windows server 2012 domain controller we will install ADDS (Active Directory Domain Services) role from the server manager on Windows Server 2012.
EXCEPT and INTERSECT (Transact-SQL)
They both return distinct values by comparing the results of two queries. EXCEPT returns any distinct values from the left query that are not also found on the right query. INTERSECT returns any distinct values that are returned by both the query on the left and right sides of the INTERSECT operand. The basic rules …
NTILE() in Transact-SQL
This function is used to distribute the rows in an ordered partition into a specified number of groups. The groups are numbered, starting at one. For each row, NTILE returns the number of the group to which the row belongs. Syntax NTILE (integer_expression) OVER ( [ <partition_by_clause> ] < order_by_clause > ) Arguments integer_expression Is …
