SQL Server Express – take database offline

April 21st, 2012 No comments

to take a database offline you need to create a new query and replace “YOUR_DATABASE” with the database you want to take offline ..

use [master]
go
alter database [YOUR_DATABASE] set offline with rollback immediate

to take it back online …

use [master]
go
alter database [YOUR_DATABASE] set online
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dynamics ax google reader bundle out-sourced and some blogs added

August 20th, 2011 No comments

installing Security Update for SQL Server 2008 (KB2494089) fails

June 16th, 2011 3 comments

when trying to install the update using automatic update the installation failed on my system with no proper error message .. after some extraction and manual installation it shows that the .net framework 4 was missing …

thanks microsoft for hiding this information and causing half an hour of extra work …

howto format a usb thumb flash drive

April 3rd, 2011 No comments

to format a usb thumb drive you need a software called “gparted”.

installing gparted

to install it use the following command:

sudo aptitude install gparted

or you may also use the “Software Manager”,

search for “gparted” and install it.

run gparted

after the installation run it either by starting it with the command

gparted &

using the terminal or you may also find it in the mint menu listed in the group “Administration”

or just type “gparted” into the search box.

formatting

select the device you want to format from the dropdown list in the top right corner

when you made sure you have selected the correct device right-click the partition and select “Unmount”

then right-click the partition again and select the format you want the thumb drive to have from the sub-menu “Format to”

apply the changes by clicking on the ‘return’-button “Apply All Operations”

you have to confirm the operations to take effect

once the thumb drive is formatted you may close all windows and mount it by clicking on it in a nautilus window.

more dynamics ax blogs added to the blogroll

March 9th, 2011 No comments

i’ve added the following three blogs to the blogroll

Santosh Kumar Paruvella’s Blog

Mahesh Tej Ax | Just another WordPress.com site

MS Dynamics AX – SharePoint – .NET

and as always i’ve also updated the shared google reader bundle

getting sound working in virtualbox guest windows 7 – no audio output device is installed

March 6th, 2011 No comments

to get the sound working start up windows 7 and download the realtek AC’97 sound driver to your desktop. therefore click on the following link, accept and click ‘next’ and download the very first driver “Vista/Win7 (32/64 bits) Driver only (ZIP file)” from any mirror …

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsCheck.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=23&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

and extract it by right-clicking and selection “Extract All…”

select “Extract” on the next screen and wait for the file to be extracted.

when it is done click on the “Start”-Button and right-click “Computer” and select “Manage”.

the computer management console opens. select “Device Manger” in the left tree.

on the right side you should now see a device with a warning sign named “Multimedia Audio Controller”

double-click on that and select “Update Driver…” in its properties.

choose “Browse my computer for driver software”

and click the “Browse…”-button in the new window

select the lately extracted folder and click on “OK”

make sure the option “Include subfolders” is checked and confirm the step by clicking on the “Next”-button.

confirm the windows security popup by clicking on “Install this driver software anyway”

and wait for the installation to finish.

you now have sound in your vm.

another blog added to the dynamics ax google reader bundle

March 3rd, 2011 No comments

just added the following new link and also updated the bundle .. thereby i noticed that the two new blogs added yesterday where not made public .. i also fixed that …

http://www.ksaelen.be/wordpress/

the blogroll can also be followed via it’s own soup:

http://dynamics-ax.soup.io

new blogs added to blogroll

March 2nd, 2011 No comments

i just added two new blogs i found concerning microsoft dynamics ax.

http://daynamicsaxaptatutorials.blogspot.com

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dynamicsaxbi/

i’ve also created and shared my google reader bundle “dynamics_ax”

https://www.google.com/reader/view/user%2F04694330528552807266%2Fbundle%2Fdynamics_ax

getting lessc working

February 27th, 2011 No comments

after trying to get lessc working following the post http://ken.edmonds-commerce.co.uk/css/four-commands-away-from-installing-less-css-on-ubuntu/ with no luck i finally managed it as follows (and as i just notices these are also only four command) …

sudo aptitude install git nodejs
sudo git clone https://github.com/cloudhead/less.js.git /opt/lessc

open your .bashrc file using the command

gedit ~/.bashrc

and add the following new line to make lessc work

alias lessc='nodejs /opt/lessc/bin/lessc'

as the alias takes no effect in the opened terminal open a new terminal and it will work

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installing windows 7 in virtualbox results in error code 0×80070570

February 27th, 2011 No comments

when trying to install windows 7 in virtualbox i got the following error message …

the cause of this error was a faulty windows 7 image file .. after re-copying it and validating the md5 the error disappeared and installation was successful …