In an earlier post I wrote about Azure WordPress performance compared to a Linux VPS hosted instance for WordPress, with the later completely trouncing the Azure hosted instance. While I really wanted the Azure environment to be a success, until the database performance increases we’ll be hosting our WordPress sites Continue Reading
Adding a new field to an SSRS Report and seeing #Error on preview
I don’t know how many times I’ve done this, the scenario goes something like this, your boss emails you asking for some new field to be added to a report. You spend quite a bit of time adding the necessary logic to the underlying dataset, everything looks great from SQL side of Continue Reading
SQL Server Table Designer can’t save changes
I come across this warning/error message every time I do a fresh install of SQL Server on my laptop and despite having set this option back more times than I care to remember, I end up spending a few minutes looking for the setting in the Management Studio options. Figure: Continue Reading
CRM 2015 Hierarchies are cool!
CRM 2015 Hierarchies are a really cool feature that let users navigate records by visually seeing parent child relationships. Out of the box Accounts, Positions, Products, and Users entities get hierarchies baked in. Hierarchies can be added to other built-in entities and to all custom entities. Figure: CRM 2015 Hierarchy Continue Reading
Need to search strings inside your SQL Objects? Try this utility
While performing a migration from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2014 (wow what a big jump), I needed to find all stored procedures that made a call to an extended stored procedure that was being replaced with functionality that is baked into more recent versions. So what to do? Stack Overflow Continue Reading
Installing a Dynamics CRM 2015 for Demo Environment
With Dynamics CRM 2015 now available on MSDN for download I thought I’d get on top of it right away and setup a demo VM. With most MS products this is pretty easy, but Dynamics has a higher requirements list. The prerequisites include: Windows Server Active Directory (yep you’ll need Continue Reading
Dymanics CRM 2015 and Dymanics GP 2015 now on MSDN
Head over to msdn.microsoft.com (needs msdn subscription) to get the downloads. Really looking forward to getting CRM 2015 up and running and playing with some of the new features like: Enhanced Business Processes Enhanced Business Rules Fields: Calculated and Roll-up Hierarchy Visualization
Azure WordPress Performance vs Linux VPS
I’m sure there’s probably more to this, but here are some numbers on an Azure WordPress installation compared to a Linux VPS. The Azure hosting details are: Instance: Large 4 Cores, 7 GB RAM, ClearDB 1GB MySQL Venus Plan, hosted US West Linux VPS, 4 Cores, 2GB RAM, 1 GB Swap, Continue Reading
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This blog is a place for random posts, mainly used as a holding place for things that come up during my day job.