Rob Farley - All Comments

re: Wacom Tablet on multiple screens

aj Henryson — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:19:22 GMT

There are settings for the tablet that control what screen(s) it will map to. On the mac you want to click the details button under pen mode. There is something similar for windows but I'm not as familiar with it.

re: System Monitor (Perfmon) shows numbers instead of counter names

Thomas Hansen — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:19:08 GMT

Hello Rob! This solved the problem for one of our servers! Thanks for the tip!:)

re: Book review: Windows 7 Inside Out

Ben Laan — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:51:04 GMT

Hey Rob - I just checked in Vista - shift-right click does work! Nice tip.. Of course, since I use Directory Opus I have this already plus a million other good explorer features..

re: System Monitor (Perfmon) shows numbers instead of counter names

Ed Greaves — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:32:57 GMT

This just saved my bacon. THANKS!

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improve credit — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:40:35 GMT

Wow - nice blog. I like it alot!

re: Book review: Programming Dynamics CRM 4.0

Joe Webb — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:46:22 GMT

Hi Rob -

If you're experience is anything like mine, it's just a matter of time before you have a project that involves CRM. I've been the SQL consultant for a CRM implementation recently. It's hard not to look at the database and keep my hands off - not adding indexes, etc.

What I've found the most difficult is getting data into CRM. It's not SSIS friendly so we've been relegated to using something like Scribe which does row-by-agonizing-row operations.

Thanks for the write up.

Joe

A Tripp to Melbourne?

Rob Farley — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:53:09 GMT

I feel like it’s been a while since I’ve been to Melbourne (although I did pass through the airport there

re: The best way to pass a Microsoft certification exam

Rob Farley — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:14:21 GMT

The only way to sit an exam without stress is to really know your stuff. But I think if you have another attempt coming your way afterwards, that will reduce the stress even more.

re: The best way to pass a Microsoft certification exam

hannanloveus — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:01:33 GMT

I don't think your post aims to encourage someone to take the second shot ,

just help us write the exam without stress .

re: System Monitor (Perfmon) shows numbers instead of counter names

Chipotle Hamburger — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:23:59 GMT

This worked for me, however I had to go one step further. I compared the PerfStringBackup.ini file on my machine to one on a working machine. Mine was missing significant amount of data compared to the one on the working machine.

I replaced mine with the one from the working machine and then ran lodctr.exe /R:PerfStringBackup.ini . This then solved the problem.

re: Simulation questions in 70-431

Rob Farley — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:40:58 GMT

Rajkishore - can't say. There may be some overlap, but you can't be sure.

Shelly - try to just do the task and get out, and then stay out (I don't think it counts against you if you go back in, but in my opinion, it's never a good idea to revisit questions). I don't think you'll get penalised for trying to go out of scope. No limit on clicks.

But everything I've written here is subject to change...

re: Simulation questions in 70-431

Rajkishore Gupta — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:31:39 GMT

I just given 70-431 exams last week but could not clear it.

I am planning to re-appear this exam in a next week.

Can anyone let me know if questions in both (multi-part and simulation) will be changed or those would be same as it was in first exam?

re: Simulation questions in 70-431

Shelly — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:56:00 GMT

Hi,

I am sittin the MCTS next week, from reading this blog i am confused ... on the simulations if you click something that is disabled, is this recorded? do you have a limited number of clicks?

Thanks

re: Converting to (and from) Julian Date (YYDDD) format in T-SQL

Rob Farley — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:56:30 GMT

True, but this particular client needed char(5) for other reasons.

re: Simulation questions in 70-431

Chao Moua — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:16:40 GMT

Well, reading all these give me a headache. I haven't taken the exam yet, but will soon be going to. Maybe next month I hope. The Microsoft Self Pace 70-431 book help me alot with real sample simulation question in it. That what I been using to get ready for this exam. It hasn't failed me yet...knock on wood... 70-290,291,293,294,297 all passed on my first try.

re: Converting to (and from) Julian Date (YYDDD) format in T-SQL

jason wong — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:06:08 GMT

It's better to use integer arithematic than string manipulations for performance reasons.

set @standardDate = DATEADD (day , @julianDate%1000-1, DATEADD(year,@julianDate/1000-1900, 0 ) )

SSRS: Removing the Navigation link using an Expression

Rob Farley — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:23:00 GMT

There are times when you want to have a Navigation property of a textbox (typically providing a link

re: No File Conversion in Windows Mobile Device Center?

Cherri — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:15:11 GMT

Well here I am reading the original posted thread back in June 2007 - its now July 2009 and I'm still having the same problem!

Just got a new Vista laptop - and cannot open 'Word' documents created on my PDA - on my Laptop - as the 'new' Vista WDMC which has replaced the 'old' XP Active Sync - does not allow for conversion from the PDA Word - to the PC Word - UNBELIEVABLE!! What exactly were the Vista developers thinking when given the mission of creating a new and improved OS - "I know .. we'll just DROP some features" !?

I am considering changing my operating system on my NEW Vista bundled notebook back to XP!!!

Anyone have any thoughts on SYMBION operating systems? or 3rd party sync software to overcome this problem!!?

While I'm complaining - the new WMDC also does not allow you to click on 'connect' or 'synchronize' like the old active sync did!! I just end up waiting and waiting until it feels like doing its thing which takes many minutes after connecting. There is also no way of viewing SMS's through the viewer. The list goes on!

re: A review: "Learning SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services” by Jayaram Krishnaswamy

Frank — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:44:16 GMT

Just use ebookee to get it.

re: The only way to do a handover

Theresa Glenister — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:29:04 GMT

Does anyone have a department handover template?