Archive for the ‘Microsoft’ Category

What is it? It’s a bidirectionally synchronized folder in The Cloud. I’m amazed. It works on every major platform. It works seamlessly. It just works.

You’ve installed VirtualBox Guest Additions in Windows 7, but Shared Folders don’t yet work. There is a simple workaround that can provide basic functionality.

At CES this year, Microsoft has announce the beta availability of Microsoft Tag. This article is an analysis of the features and implementation of this new tagging technology.

Unfortunately, setting up a linked server to Oracle is not as easy as it should be. In fact, you’ll have to install some software on your server to make things work. I’ve put together a short guide on connecting to Oracle from SQL Server.

SQL Server provides a great notification system for alerts and jobs. There are many options to be set and multiple dialog boxes to step through, but once finished, you’ll always be the first to know when a problem is immanent. Below is a detailed reference to get this running on a new server.


  • shiva ramani: good instruction. How to push data to MySQL from SQL 2005 [...]
  • Winkey: I've created a linked server for mysql successfully, and also can do Insert, Select. But when I try [...]
  • RaghuRam: Thanks a lot buddy it helped me to change the root password when I got the error trying to c [...]
  • Taylor Gerring: If you're on a 64-bit OS, did you run the 32-bit version of ODBC applet? Run: odbcad32 [...]
  • Taylor Gerring: If the issue is the guest sync'ing to the host, can't you just force time sync the host if you can't [...]


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