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Brian Knight

August 2007 - Posts

  • Vista Battery Saver Tool

     I just downloaded a pretty amazing tool that follows all the great qualifications: free and useful. The tool's purpose is to deactivate heavy vista interface features whenever you're on battery mode. The tool claims to save up to 70% on your battery life. For me, this made my vista OS using on my Dell XPS M1210 go from 3.5 hours of battery life to about 5.5-6 hours!

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    http://www.codeplex.com/vistabattery

    Posted Aug 21 2007, 11:46 PM by Brian Knight with no comments
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  • SSIS Stumper Volume 1

     

    I've started to write a new series called SSIS Stumpers. Each stumper gives you an intermediate to expert-level business problem to solve with SSIS. Sample data is provided and you're asked to load the data in a challenging way or performance tune a package. Each stumper gives you the requirements at first and you can start there or turn the page to see some hints. If that's not good enough, you can see a step-by-step instruction on the next page.

    The first one in the series, your given an example where you'll need to unpivot data using canned components in SSIS. You can download this SSIS Stumper magazine for free with all the data and complete project at http://www.endtoendtraining.com/private/misc/downloads.aspx. If you'd like a step-by-step video on how to solve the problem, see my video here:

    http://www.jumpstarttv.com/Media.aspx?vid=268

     

    Posted Aug 10 2007, 08:51 PM by Brian Knight with no comments
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