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I have NEC SuperScript 870 laser printer connected to my Home PC. I was not able to print to this printer from my new HP dv6-1375dx Windows 7 laptop. My machines are connected via Hamachi. Here is what I did to get around the lack of NEC driver for Windows 7 (I found this tip here) –
1. Created a new printer (pointing to the same LPT port that is connected to NEC 870) on my Home PC using HP Laser Jet III driver.
2. Shared this new printer.
3. On the Windows 7 laptop, I dropped the document I wanted to print on this new printer. Voila !!!
SoCal Code Camp is coming up on November 21st & 22nd 2009 at University of Southern California, Los Angeles. There is just an incredible lineup of sessions. If you are trying to make up your mind about the sessions to attend, here are my recommendations –
1. Attend as many of Llewellyn Falco’s and Woody Zuill‘s sessions as you can. Specially, Unit Testing The Easy Way and one of the Dojo sessions. Any one of these sessions will make your entire trip worthwhile.
2.Kristian Hermansen’s Get Hacked Live ..
3. Stacey Broadwell’s Using Technology & Social Media to Target Candidates & Jobs should be very useful. I attended her recent presentation at L.A. Dot Net @ UCLA, it was very informative.
4. and of course If it walks like a Scrum … by yours sincerely.
I am planning to attend as many of the following sessions as the schedule allows –
* Algorithmic Trading in C#
scott hodson
* Automated Grid layout in Silverlight and WPF
Richard Fencel
* Building nTier Applications with Entity Framework Services
David McCarter
* Experiencing Agile Through Games
Carlton Nettleton
* Interoperability in the Cloud
Alejandro Espinoza
* Rapid Prototyping with Expression Blend
mark bosley
* One of Paul Sheriff’s WPF presentations
* SCRUM CLUB: Agile Requirements Gathering Workshop!
Amanda Abelove
See you there !
DbUpdater can be used with mysql.
Here are the files you need to jumpstart the integration – DbUpdater-MySql.zip
1. You might need to change the path to mysql.exe in mysql-exec.bat.
2. Modify values in mysql-sample-command-line.bat.
Make sure mysql.data.dll is placed in GAC or in the same directory as DbUpdater.exe. Connector binaries can be downloaded from here –
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/6.1.html
My invitation code for SQL Azure CTP finally arrived. I had been waiting for this.
You can create a database in from the SQL Azure Management page, shown above.
After you have created the database, of course, you can use DbUpdater with your SQL Azure databases. Here is the command-line :
DbUpdater.exe ..\SqlScripts /server:”tcp:SERVER.ctp.database.windows.net” /db:DATABASE /user:”USER@SERVER” /password:PASSWORD /confirm:true
And you will need this DbUpdater.exe.config file :
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″ ?>
<configuration>
<appSettings>
<add key=”file-prefix” value=”db” />
<add key=”file-extension” value=”sql” />
<add key=”schema-versions-name” value=”schema-versions-table.sql” />
<add key=”baseline-name” value=”baseline.sql” />
<add key=”post-script-prefix” value=”post” />
<add key=”post-script-always-apply” value=”true” />
<add key=”exe-file” value=”C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Binn\SQLCMD.EXE” />
<add key=”exe-args” value=’-U %UserName% -P %Password% -S “%ServerName%” -d %DbName% -i “%SqlFile%”‘ />
<add key=”dialect” value=”NHibernate.Dialect.MsSql2000Dialect” />
<add key=”driver_class” value=”NHibernate.Driver.SqlClientDriver” />
<add key=”connection_string” value=”Server=%ServerName%;Database=%DbName%;User ID=%UserName%;Password=%Password%;Trusted_Connection=False;” />
</appSettings>
</configuration>
You can run sqlcmd.exe directly to execute t-sql scripts on SQL Azure. Here is a sample command :
sqlcmd.exe -S SERVER.ctp.database.windows.net -U USER@SERVER -P PASSWORD -d DB -i “baseline.sql”
I received these errors when I executed my SQL Server 2005 scripts on a SQL Azure database –
These are not the limitations of the SQL Azure platform. SQL Azure is based on SQL Server 2008 Database Engine. The complete list of deprecated features in SQL Server 2008 are listed here along with the replacements (if any) : Deprecated Database Engine Features in SQL Server 2008 – MSDN.
After modifying the scripts to replace the deprecated features, the scripts could be executed without any further issues. All stored procedures, triggers and views were created without any errors.
The following error is a SQL Azure limitation.
Here is more detailed information on unsupported T-SQL – Unsupported Transact-SQL Statements (SQL Azure Database) – MSDN
