EqualLogic and its ‘Dirty Bits’

REVISION, I didn’t quite understand this, luckily some people at the dell equallogic conference filled me in This was a bit unintuitive to me so I thought I would put it out there. So, say you have a volume of 500 GB with thin provisioning enabled. Now, let’s say that you cloned a production 250 [...]

List of Functional Identifier Code’s

Well, assuming I didn’t mess up anything here they are PG 100 NL 101 AC 102 AP 103 SA 104 BF 105 MH 106 MC 107 MK 108 IA 110 IF 111 PQ 112 CL 113 MR 125 DI 128 ED 130 AK 131 HU 132 CW 133 SL 135 TT 138 SL 139 LT [...]

I’m going to the first ever EqualLogic User Conference! (And my gripe list)

So I’m getting more and more jazzed to head to Dallas for the EL User Conference. I’m guessing I will learn a lot of stuff that I will wish that I had known before our install but hey that’s life. So my gripe list and conference conversational starters are for the moment this: Why is [...]

My Spat with GERD

So awhile back I started having pain around my xiphoid process. This was kindof strange to me because typical GERD suffers are possibly overwieght (I’m scrawny), drink alchohol or coffee (I’m LDS) or pregnant (I’m not, I’m very sure), or older. So it was sortof strange although I think there is probably a family pre-disposition [...]

Quick tip create a file copy with a different extension

i.e. if you have a bunch of .txt files and you wanted to keep them but also have a copy with .xml go to dos promp go to that folder of files copy *.txt *.xml There you go

Get data across databases sql server

select a.col1, b.col2 from db1.dbo.tab1 a, db2.dbo.tab2 b where a.col1 = b.col2 All you sql wizards prob know this alread

count number of files in a directory .bat file

dir “C:\FOLDER” /b/s |find /v /c “::”

doc bat file redirecting output to a variable

From here http://weblogs.asp.net/lorenh/archive/2006/03/24/silly-batch-file-tricks-redirecting-stdout-into-an-evironment-variable-and-dp0.aspx FOR /F “tokens=*” %%i in (‘%~dp0sometool.exe’) do SET TOOLOUTPUT=%%i

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