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A bit of MS SQL
by someone16 on Feb.21, 2010, under Life
When playing around with Windows Server 2008 I discovered how good Linux is. Even that I have to use Terminal (which I like anyway), dealing with Linux configuration is easier than dealing with Windows.
My primary area of interest is the Internet and all about it (web sites, databases, programming, servers). I really like open source (from operating system to programming languages), but occasionally I also check on the alternatives (Microsoft’s world, to be precise).
And in the previous week I checked a bit of how stuff works in Windows (DNS, IIS, MS SQL, ASP.Net). On the first look, it seemed a lot easier to work with it because of the GUI, but it soon became clear that I was terribly wrong.
Internet Information Server … great thing, a lot of options and dialogs but there are still stuff that needs to be configured manually. After setting up a few test web sites, I ran into few problems. The biggest was about caching static content on visitor’s computers. I partially configured it by Googling about it.
MS SQL
Again, everything seemed very easy. Creating a database takes few clicks, creating a user takes another few clicks and we have everything we want. Tables can be migrated from MySQL by using ODBC and that’s it. Until…I wanted to access this data from a web application.
Only thing I can get from my web application (just a simple thing for testing some of the MS SQL features and comparing performance to MySQL) was a simple error, that selected user cannot access selected database.
I was confused at first, but then I opened another instance of MS SQL Management Studio, connected to the server using this user, and I was not allowed to access anything. I guessed MS SQL has a unique way of managing rights and so I googled for tutorials and help. As I found out, there is a lot less Internet literature on this topic (MS SQL) than on alternatives.
After reading 30 articles, 400 clicks on buttons, 100 closed dialogs and 2 hours of work, I finally found a solution for this problem. It was pretty simple and I described it on Tech Site & Blog: http://techsiteblog.com/ms-sql-add-user/
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My primary area of interest is the Internet and all about it (web sites, databases, programming, servers). I really like open source (from operating system to programming languages), but occasionally I also check on the alternatives (Microsoft’s world, to be precise).
And in the previous week I checked a bit of how stuff works in Windows (DNS, IIS, MS SQL, ASP.Net). On the first look, it seemed a lot easier to work with it because of the GUI, but it soon became clear that I was terribly wrong.
Internet Information Server … great thing, a lot of options and dialogs but there are still stuff that needs to be configured manually. After setting up a few test web sites, I ran into few problems. The biggest was about caching static content on visitor’s computers. I partially configured it by Googling about it.
MS SQL
Again, everything seemed very easy. Creating a database takes few clicks, creating a user takes another few clicks and we have everything we want. Tables can be migrated from MySQL by using ODBC and that’s it. Until…I wanted to access this data from a web application.
Only thing I can get from my web application (just a simple thing for testing some of the MS SQL features and comparing performance to MySQL) was a simple error, that selected user cannot access selected database.
I was confused at first, but then I opened another instance of MS SQL Management Studio, connected to the server using this user, and I was not allowed to access anything. I guessed MS SQL has a unique way of managing rights and so I googled for tutorials and help. As I found out, there is a lot less Internet literature on this topic (MS SQL) than on alternatives.
After reading 30 articles, 400 clicks on buttons, 100 closed dialogs and 2 hours of work, I finally found a solution for this problem. It was pretty simple and I described it on Tech Site & Blog: http://techsiteblog.com/ms-sql-add-user/
Windows 7
by someone16 on Jun.27, 2009, under Computers
Hi all,
Yesterday I tried Windows 7 Release Candidate and I have no problems with it. It's good operating system, but I still prefer Mac OS. Microsoft did a good job with this Windows version and hopefully they will sell more copies of it than of Vista.
It would be great if all Windows XP users move to 7, because XP's are 8 years old and don't have support anymore. But this won't gonna happen. I really do not understand people who insist on using that old OS. Even Linux is better (not that I have anything against it).
AFAIK a lot of people moved to Mac/Linux because Vista is a little bit crappy. Windows 7 must make for all lost users because of Vista. Linux can't do much with it's less than 1% of all users. But there is a posibility of Google making OS. Google give away free services, people trust Google. I think it's only company which can overtake Microsoft's Windows market share.
But that is higly unlikely. I watched video on YouTube where they ask some people if they heart of Google Chrome ... 95% didn't even know what that is. So just because Google makes something doesn't mean, that everyone will use it. (They have some sucessfull projects like Google and Gmail).
So Microsoft has nothing to worry about ... at least for now.
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Yesterday I tried Windows 7 Release Candidate and I have no problems with it. It's good operating system, but I still prefer Mac OS. Microsoft did a good job with this Windows version and hopefully they will sell more copies of it than of Vista.
It would be great if all Windows XP users move to 7, because XP's are 8 years old and don't have support anymore. But this won't gonna happen. I really do not understand people who insist on using that old OS. Even Linux is better (not that I have anything against it).
AFAIK a lot of people moved to Mac/Linux because Vista is a little bit crappy. Windows 7 must make for all lost users because of Vista. Linux can't do much with it's less than 1% of all users. But there is a posibility of Google making OS. Google give away free services, people trust Google. I think it's only company which can overtake Microsoft's Windows market share.
But that is higly unlikely. I watched video on YouTube where they ask some people if they heart of Google Chrome ... 95% didn't even know what that is. So just because Google makes something doesn't mean, that everyone will use it. (They have some sucessfull projects like Google and Gmail).
So Microsoft has nothing to worry about ... at least for now.
Windows XP versus Windows Vista
by someone16 on Jun.10, 2009, under Computers
A few days ago I did a Super PI test on my old laptop with Windows XP and Windows Vista.
System:
- 1.5 GHz Intel Celeron M
- 512 MB RAM
Both systems were fresh installed with all needed drivers.
Results:
Conclusion: Windows XP did better with small calculations, but Vista beats it at larger calculations (16M and 32M).
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System:
- 1.5 GHz Intel Celeron M
- 512 MB RAM
Both systems were fresh installed with all needed drivers.
Results:
Windows Vista Windows XP
+ 000h 00m 02s [ 64K] + 000h 00m 01s [ 64K]
+ 000h 00m 04s [ 128K] + 000h 00m 04s [ 128K]
+ 000h 00m 09s [ 256K] + 000h 00m 09s [ 256K]
+ 000h 00m 24s [ 512K] + 000h 00m 23s [ 512K]
+ 000h 00m 58s [ 1M] + 000h 00m 57s [ 1M]
+ 000h 02m 24s [ 2M] + 000h 02m 21s [ 2M]
+ 000h 05m 23s [ 4M] + 000h 05m 17s [ 4M]
+ 000h 12m 18s [ 8M] + 000h 11m 54s [ 8M]
+ 000h 25m 42s [ 16M] + 000h 25m 52s [ 16M]
+ 000h 53m 33s [ 32M] + 000h 56m 07s [ 32M]
Conclusion: Windows XP did better with small calculations, but Vista beats it at larger calculations (16M and 32M).
