Maybe the drive where your database files are located is rapidly running out of space or maybe you just want to move the database files to a higher performing drive. This will show you how. Step 1: determine where your files are so you know you are moving the right thing. Using SQLPlus: Step 2: take the tablespace...

This guide will show you how to install FTP Server on Windows 2008 R2 (which is running IIS 7.5), how to configure FTP Over SSL (FTPS), and also how to test the setup with FileZilla. Create FTP group and user(s) Install FTP server Set up Endian Firewall Appliance Test FTPS connection with Filezilla Create FTP group and user(s) Using...

I needed to create a folder for each of the 50 US States. Manually doing this is not that difficult, but where is the fun in that? Why not script it with 2 lines of powershell? Create a collection of states: Now, loop that collection and create a folder:

This project had us designing a custom barcode scheme used for identifying and helping many international visitors to Texas. A series of large conventions were to be held throughout the U.S. in which 10’s of thousands of international travelers would be arriving, visiting tourist destinations, attending their convention, and then maybe attending more tourist attractions before departing. The sponsoring...

My newest keyboard has some programmable shortcut keys so I wanted to set one to open Outlook 2010 in the calendar view while another did so in mail view. You can configure Outlook with command line switches: Calendar: Tasks:

I’ve been converted – I now use GUID (UNIQUEIDENTIFIERS) instead of INT for most database tables’ primary key.  If there is only going to be 100 or less rows, I don’t bother but most everything else I feel justifies the extra bytes of GUID. It ensures the key is unique which greatly simplifies merging data in the future. A...

My “default web site” in IIS 7.5 didn’t have the usual “stopped” or “globe” icon. It was a question mark on the globe instead.  In my case, it had to do with multiple bindings. If you edit the bindings in the action panel you will find multiple protocols for this instance. Prune the list back down to just one...

Amazon, as usual, surprised me by over delivering yet again.  I didn’t expect to receive my new Fire HD early this week but Amazon shipped earlier than they promised. Now that I’ve had a few days with it, I am posting the “enhancements” I’ve done to it to enable most Google services.  The great thing is that so far I’ve not had to...

If you are getting the “Error 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS):” in Chrome, ensure you still have a default document defined in IIS that is reachable. I had accidentally removed my web.config file on my workstation and, since I don’t use the default Coldfusion document of ‘index.cfm’, my redirect from ‘index.cfm’ to my default document (actually called ‘default.cfm’) was causing an infinite loop that Chrome was...

I've located a small page that describes the various functions available via Bing maps.