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This was my third visit to Peradaniya University, we ( Wela , Prabath , Susantha , Tharindu, and me ) did set of sessions on .NET, C#, and S...

Thought to make a post on this, may help you to brush up your computer history knowledge too :) • The name of the first computer is ENIAC (...

I was not in the know, if you too, read this Merill's post , it is about the history of Microsoft Office Web Apps.

Recently, I had to create couple of Reporting Services 2008 reports by using Oracle 10g as the data source. I had to use one machine as the ...

It hit me again, this is the second time I experienced this problem. My VPC with Windows 2008, SQL Server 2008 and MOSS 2007 was working f...

If you are unaware of SP3, here is the link, x86 and x64 .

It hit again, this time it is with Reporting Services 2008. PerformancePoint allows to connect with Reporting Server and lets to browse rep...

When we discuss, when I teach, the mostly discussed SQL Server related languages are DML and DDL. But do you know that there are few more ca...

This held our work for few hours. When we tried to make a connection to SQL Server 2008 server with “Native OLE DB\SQL Server Native Client ...

I used to use Char data type for character data types of variable length columns, if the maximum number of characters that will set for the ...

Last week, two batches, one for 2780B (SQL 2005) and another for 6231A (SQL 2008) were successfully completed and will be starting my next c...

Sometimes, we switch the execution context to different account when required. One of requirements when connected in such a manner may be, f...

I started another class for course 2780B - Maintaining a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database. Though I wanted to do this on 2008 (6231A), thi...

I am experiencing this error with Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, when the hibernated machine which had PowerPoint presentation opened, is start...

If you are using the "Windows Services" window for changing the assigned account for SQL Server service, you may face some problem...

Once I blogged about this error with this link . Today I faced the same, but the reason was different. My new machine is installed with Vis...

First of all, let me tell you that why I need to connect to Analysis Services with the Port number; because the Analysis Services 2008 is ru...

This is still there, with SQL Server 2008 too. I usually use TinyInt for tables' primary key when the number of records to be held are l...

Today, I came across a situation where I had to explain the FILEGROUP restore of SQL Server. Since I have not done this for a long time, I b...

Had no time to update my blog for few weeks, was really busy with work: - New BI project: This is for one of the leading banks in Sri Lanka...

This clearly shows the reality, this shows who wants to destroy the great country, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka won again, defeating the internation...

Are you experiencing this? You might. There are different set of connection related errors with PerformancePoint 2007. If you get errors lik...

While installing the SP2 of PerformancePoint 2007, you may get an error like; Failed package requirement analysis, please refer to the log ...

If you are using PerformancePoint 2007 and you have not installed the SP2, then this is the time for installing it. As you know, it did not ...