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Breaks in submarine cables which link Europe and the Middle East disrupted Internet and international telephone services in parts of the Middle East and South Asia... Please follow the link for more information: http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIntegratedTelecommunicationsServices/idUSLK37775420081220...

Saturday, November 1st- Vietnamese authorities warned of more flash floods in the north of the country...Streets in the capital Hanoi remained submerged with up to 1 meter (yard) of water after torrential rains, described as the heaviest since 1984......

Most parts of Pakistan are experiencing severe electricity rationing, and electricity is unavailable more often than not.  If you are a buyer working with a Pakistini, please contact them to initiate a dialog on whether and how the...

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If you are having trouble getting email to or from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, or the Middle East, it’s probably because a badly dropped ship anchor has damaged an undersea Internet provisioning telecom cable in the Mediterranean, disrupting Internet...

At least 34 more monsoon deaths were reported Monday in India, while a violent storm killed 22 people in Pakistan — part of a devastating monsoon season. For more details: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20244462/ General:Rent A Coder expresses our...

This is an interesting survey that was published this month in InfoWorld.  Many people blamed offshoring for job losses between 2001-2005.  (It's difficult to still blame it post 2005, since IT employment is now higher than it was...

Microsoft Exchange 2005 has a # of features to make it easier to deal with spam (unsolicited email) with Intelligent Message Filtering.  However dealing with an email denial of service attack is a slightly different story.  A well constructed...

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Rent a Coder Critical Weather Update: News:Typhoon Xangsane has caused power outages in Manilla, Phillipines since 9/27. Some authorities estimate power may be resumed in 48-72 hours. (more info...) General:Rent A Coder expresses our condolences...

News: An estimated 100 people have been killed in the city of Surat due to heavy flooding. The infrastructure damage is currently affecting power and internet connectivity of most of the city. There is no currently available estimate on when services...

The new database mirroring feature in SQL Server 2005 SP1 is pretty cool and should help availability.  But it still has a # of serious drawbacks that prevent it from being as useful as it could be.  The primary one from my point of view is...

There is an interesting and useful new feature in SQL 2005 where it takes all queries that execute and don't find an optimal index...and records the information.  You can use this information to generate indexes and speed up your performance. ...

Many people have argued strongly that offshore outsourcing is bad for U.S. workers in the IT industry becuase it causes a massive loss of jobs.  Many go on to conclude that it is "un-American" to outsource. These same people may have...

As you've probably already noticed, the database issues are almost completely resolved.  For the coders out there who run SQL Server 2005, this article was created documenting the problems encountered and their solutions so you do not have to...

Is it my imagination or is SQL 2005 running slower?My first impresson with SQL Server 2005 came after installing it on a test server.  The test server is a dual processor machine...which was a pretty high powered box back in it's hey-day,...

If you run your SQL Server as the back end for a website, then paging is one of the most common things that you do.  In SQL Server 2000, doing this paging was complicated and resource intensive.  But in 2005, there is a new feature called...

We recently upgraded from SQL Server 2000 to SQL 2005.  We simultaneously did a serious upgrade of the hardware.  The old server was a dual processor 32 bit machine.  The new server is quad processor 64 bit machine.  The dual...

4/28/2006 10:00 AM: Peak 10 (our data center colocation provider and ISP) is currently experiencing a network issue which is causing the site to be intermittently unavilable to you at times. Early indications lead them to believe this is a denial...

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1)includes many bug fixes and improvements to the core SQL Server 2005 engine.  Given the poor performance we had been experiencing after upgrading from SQL Server 2000 (despite simultaneously doubling the processors,...

Tuesday: April 25th, 2006: In order to get better/faster resolutions to the site issues  that we are currently experiencing (detailed elsewhere on this blog), we have upgraded our support contract with Microsoft to a very high level of support . ...

COMPLETED: Microsoft has fixed a # of bugs in SQL Server in an updated called Service Pack 1 (SP1).  This was installed on Monday night (April 25th) from 8pm-1am Tuesday night. This upgrade contains about 20-30 fixes including one that helps the...

Update 4/30/2006:  Pre R2 versions of Windows 2003 x64 Standard Edition support quad processor machines....but NOT symmetric processing of the four processors.  This means it fills the first one up all the way and then goes to the 2nd and...

There's been alot of negative publicity about hyperthreading (see "Hyperthreading hurts server performance, say developers" which is all over the net...including: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39237341,00.htm) We had been experiencing disapointing...

Fragmentation of your SQL Server indices builds up over time from new data being added to your tables.  This means that the more work your database does...the more it will slow down on scans, meaning that your queries will run slower and slower...