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SQL Server Services

Introduction: As the time passes by, the technology also shifts its gears and travel towards a better destination. Talking about SQL server the trend is the same. From SQL server 2005 to 2008 there were few changes in design, options and performance but something that is relatively similar are services. Though there are few additional features like support for policy based management, auditing, geo-spatial data and advance reporting and analysis services, the basic services that are required for proper functionality of SQL server remains almost the same. Services are individual programs or executable files that allow any application to...

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ELASTIC MAPREDUCE

Amazon Elastic Map Reduce is a web service that makes it effortless to development huge amounts of data resourcefully. Elastic Map Reduce uses Hadoop processing combined with several AWS services to do such tasks as web indexing, data mining, log file analysis, machine learning, scientific simulation, and data warehousing. Amazon Elastic MapReduce use Amazon EC2 to create Hadoop cluster and use Amazon simple storage service (S3) to store data, script, log file, output result. Elastic MapReduce takes care of provisioning an Amazon EC2 cluster, terminating it, moving the data between it and Amazon S3, and optimizing Hadoop. Elastic MapReduce...

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The Exchange Toolbox

The Toolbox (Figure below) is the bottom node in EMC and serves as a container for a set of utilities that deliver lots of value for Exchange administrators. Some of these utilities (such as ExBPA and ExTRA) are available from Microsoft in standalone versions so that you can run them against Exchange 2003 servers and some of the options presented are simply signposts to  utilities that already exist on the server. Not all the tools here are specifically for troubleshooting, and they are separated into four different sections: Configuration Management Tools • Best Practices Analyzer • Details Templates Editor • Public...

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Disk Management

One of the features of Window 7 is Resize the Partitions. Now you can extend and shrink the Window 7 partitions by using the Disk Management. With the Disk Management you can create the volumes, format the volumes and file systems like FAT, FAT32 or NTFS etc with out interruption by rebooting the system. As we know that now hard disks are available in terabytes range and large space is available to perform different tasks. Disk Management allows you to divide the disk into multiple partitions and store large amount of data at different locations. Now you can...

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Amazon Simple Storage service

S3 is easy to use and compatible storage for internet. Here you can store thousands of data and retrieve it with a very small amount of cost. We can store object up to 5 gigabyte each.

Let’s check out some basic functionality of simple storage service i.e.S3. To Access S3 first of all need an Amazon account. You will need a credit card to create an account. Then sign in with it and select “Amazon S3” tab the first one from left. Looks like this.

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Cloud Computing (IAAS)

How to create Window server 2008 machine in EC2 (Amazon)

Amazon started to provide service to online bookstores, after this it also started selling DVD, CD, Software, Electronics item etc. Now Amazon provides web service platform in cloud. It provides service in a cost-effective manner as we need to pay only how much we use and no upfront is required. Secondly it is flexible as it gives facility to use any platform and programming model whatever you like. There are different types of products which Amazon provides like Amazon elastic commute cloud, auto scaling, simple DB, Amazon Fulfillment...

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Outlook 2007

Here we cover all options within the Go menu, Actions and help menu. Some cool options you would have missed to notice. Open Microsoft Outlook 2007. You will get a window similar to the one shown below.

Go Option The Go option in the toolbar provides you with a list of shortcuts to the most frequently used feature in MS Outlook. The Mail option under the Go option displays the folders of your mailbox in the main window.

You will get a window similar to the one shown below.

The Calendar...

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Device Manager

Device manager in Window 7 is used to graphically view all the hardware that is installed and connected to your computer. Device driver is actually software that allow window to communicate with specific hardware device. To use any hardware device drive must be installed. Some of the properties of device manager are following
  • Device manager is used to determine whether hardware on your computer is working properly.
  • Device manager identify can identify the device drives that are loaded for each device.
  • You can enable, disable and uninstalled the devices through device Manager.
  • Device manger only works on the...

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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

Amazon Private Virtual Cloud (VPC) is providing facility to use our individual resources which are isolated in the Amazon Cloud. Using Amazon Virtual Private Network (VPN) we can connect our resources to the isolated computer in the cloud. Amazon VPC integrated with Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS), and Cloud Watch. Amazon VPC provides security such as DNS, LDAP etc., reliable, scalable and cost effective.

Before we start lets discuss some important terms in Amazon VPC.
  • VPC is a remote section of cloud. We need to provide IP...

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Step by Step Installation of the Visual Studio 6

Visual studio 6 is a computer software that is used in creating and running programs written in visual basic, C and C++ languages. Visual studio installation has several steps that need to be followed in order to work properly. Below is the explanation with images made easy to understand for its installation. It should be noted that the icons with a red mark are the required fields to be filled during the entire installation process. 1. Run the set up of visual studio 6 software as shown below.

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