I was working on maintaining SQL Server DB backups on a new server of mine, but I faced an error message that telling me my backup file created on database engine 10.50.4042 version while my current database engine version is 10.00.5500. I believe you already faced such an error message.
Once I got that error message, the first question came into my mind is how can I know what these version numbers really menas to me and how can fix this issue.. answering to these question was nicely listed into this blog post, actually the author of this blog did a great job of creating a catalog of versioning numbers and what each one means. https://buildnumbers.wordpress.com/sqlserver/
Achieving goals might not be an easy thing. But by using the right approach to tackle your goals will be a big part of achieving your goals. There are some rules that might help you to setup and achieve your goals… Goals are more than a TODO list that you have in place. The rule of thumb, DON’T PROCRASTINATING ACTIONS. Procrastinating will kill your dreams.
Researches showed that to achieve your goals there are 5 basic rules that you need to follow, below is a summary of these 5 golden rules:
Goals should motivating you, it is important to like what you do in order to excel and achieve your goals.
The first step towards making your success if to get rid of the toxic people from your life.. It is not easy task to be done, But this is what will make you moving quickly towards achieving your goals and make your successful story.
There is many toxic people in outlives, business insider listed the top 8 kind of toxic people in the real life. Click here to read the article
There is nothing non-breakable.. a word that I used to say while I was back in school and still valid word. Recently, news were talking about hacking LastPass company. LastPass is a security company that providing a secured way to store your encrypted credentials for different websites. The encryption for credintials relying on the user selecting a very strong password for LastPass login. Then using this password to encrypt other sites login info. LastPass said that as the credentials are encrypted on their servers it is still secured and the hacker have almost no chance to decrypt and get the info.
In Windows 8 and 8.1, Microsoft decided to get rid of the start menu and replace it with metro UI.. unfortunately, Users were not happy with that change and they wanted to have the start menu back.. that was one of the main reasons that Windows 8 & 8.1 had market failure. The good news for those who are missing the start menu is you will have the start menu back in Windows 10.
It is not the same style that we used to have in Windows XP and 7.. the new start menu will have the live tiles on it but at the same time it has the old structure of the start menu that we used to have in Windows 7.
Cortana for desktop users.
Cortana
Microsoft is marketing the Cortana as the most personalized digital assistant. I personally have been using it in my Windows 8.1 phone devise for quite good time and I found it is very great digital assistant. Cortana wasn’t available in Windows 8.1 desktop version..
Microsoft is bringing Cortana into windows 10 desktop version. I believe that would make it easy to interact with your desktop devise by voice command. It will enable you to launch applications, adding meeting requests, searching your files on hard drive and onedrive….etc.
Xbox app
This will enable you to play Xbox game on your laptop or tablet. With improved speed and graphics performance.
Spartan Browser
Project Spartan
Bye bye for Internet Explorer.. Microsoft officially announcing that IE is dead. Project Spartan including many built in features, like PDF reading and reading mode.. Project Spartan will have Cortana support from within the browser, so Cortana can read information from the sites you’re on to do some tasks like navigate to a restaurant you’re looking up or know n upcoming flight time without having to go into your email or ticket paper.
Multi-tasking improvement
Very similar to Apple’s space feature on OSX; it enable you to have multiple desktops; each desktop has its own set of open windows and apps. I believe this will make it easier for you to organize your work in better way and isolate things.
Switching between to modes
Switching Modes
Microsoft introduced a new way to switch between desktop mode that more convenient to you. If you have mouse/keyboard attached to your devise; then you will have the desktop mode with start menu similar to the one you have in windows 7. If you de-attached the keyboard and mouse; you will be switched to the metro UI (after confirming that in confirmation message).
Action Center
With windows 10, you will have all notifications in one place, it is similar to what we have in phone devises where you can see all notifications grouped by Application that generated the notification.
Yesterday I wanted to try to use the pre-released Windows 10 on my Lumia 920 device. Per Microsoft, Windows 10 should work fine on my phone. But unfortunately that wasn’t the case. After installing windows 10, the tiles wasn’t showing up and the mobile devise wasn’t charging at all. So I decided to rollback to Windows 8.1. the good thing is Microsoft provided a backward path to roll back from Windows 10 to Windows 8.1. it was easy steps to follow; basically you need to do the followings:
Connect your phone to your laptop by using the USB cable
Tool will detect your phone and model. Click on the phone model detected.
Follow the wizard and read the warning messages carefully.
Windows 8.1 compatible with your device will be downloaded it is around 1.4 GB. then it will be installed on your phone. This will wipe all of your data and settings form the phone and install a fresh copy of Windows 8.1
Couple of weeks ago, I overcome situation where I need to restore SQL server database from network drive to my SQL server. An easy option was to copy the database to local drive on the SQL Server and do the normal restore operation; but that was costly in term of time and space as it was a huge database size.. by default MS SQL server doesn’t allow you to restore the database from network drive unless you enabled a couple of features in SQL Server; to do that you need to run the below SQL statement:
EXEC sp_configure 'XP_CMDSHELL' , 1 GO EXEC xp_Cmdshell 'net use p: \\ServerName\SharedFolderName' GO EXEC xp_fixeddrives 1 GO
to make sure the above statements configured the network drive correctly, you should see the drive name and estimated size for it as a result of executing the last SP (xp_fixeddrives). if you didn’t see the list of drives available on the server, then there something went wrong and those steps didn’t completed successfully
Completing these steps will let a drive called P: showing on your normal restore window and you can explore and locate your backup file (.Bak). also I’ve overcome a situation where the drive isn’t showing on my restore window and I can’t explore neither to locate the .bak file; even after running the above statement, so I had to delete the P drive and re-define it again.. I deleted it using the below statement then rerun the above statement and things worked fine with me
You can utilize the URL rewrite rules on web.config to redirect user’s requests that has no www to www for your domain name. below is an example of the rewrite rule that you need to inject into your web.config file (after enabling the URL Rewriting feature).
Note: Make sure to replace the domainname word in below XML with your actual site domain name
I’m a user of outlook 2010; and I got annoyed of having the People Pane at the very bottom of each email I open. I don’t use this feature; actually I hate it as it is slowing down my outlook. So I decided to disable it, I found 2 ways to do it and I thought of sharing this with you:
First Method:
On the outlook main window, click on View Tab at the ribbon
Click on People Pane button
From the mini menu that appear; you can select Off option to turn this feature OFF.
Second Method:
On outlook main window, click File tab then select Options; you will get the options dialog box opened
Select Add-Ins from the left hand side menu.
Click GO button.. it is at the very bottom of the screen.. you will get a new dialog box opened
Uncheck the checkbox near to “Microsoft Outlook Social Connector”, then click OK.
Universal Apps in short is an application model that Microsoft invented for applications that is being served in Windows Store. This enabled the application to be served in both Windows Store and Windows Phone Store. It is not a really universal application cross all platform, but it is universal in Windows world only but this application model brought the ability for developers to target all windows 8/8.1 devises while using the same code over and over; this include windows phones, tablets and PCs..What enabled this is having the Windows Common Runttime; the universal apps is being built on top of this new runtime which is already there for different windows platforms.
if you are interesting to know more about what is the universal apps, I’m planning to write more articles about it but if you can’t wait, I advise you to read this article on this link.
I was working on maintaining SQL Server DB backups on a new server of mine, but I faced an error message that telling me my backup file created on database engine 10.50.4042 version while my current database engine version is 10.00.5500. I believe you already faced such an error message.
