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[Keith] Welcome to the Mind Of Root. I'm Keith Albright

[Rich] and I'm Rich Niemeier.

[Steve] and I'm Steve Murawski.

[Keith] This is Episode 54 recorded on Tuesday June 3, 2008.

Chit-Chat - What's going on with you?

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[Rich]

[Keith]

  • Great to be home
  • My wife bought me a T-Shirt in Mouseland - I'm Grumpy because you're Dopey.

Housekeeping Items

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[Keith]

  • My apologies for not posting the server staging documentation. I received an email from Shaun asking about them. I was just so swamped at work before leaving for vacation, I couldn't get them posted. I hope to have them posted by the time you hear this.

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Steve's Topics

  • Using PolyMon to Monitor SQL Server
-I have to monitor server SQL Servers and there are a few things that are nice to keep tabs on.
-PolyMon has an example of this in the sample solutions and a good help file, but I found a few more stored procedures that are nice to monitor. I have to wrap them in a stored procedure that PolyMon can understand, but here they are:
-sp_databases - databases for current instance and sizes
-sp_statistics - indexes and stats for a given table
-sp_tables - all tables and views in current db
-Link: http://www.codeplex.com/polymon/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Samples&referringTitle=Home
-Link: http://shrinkster.com/ypv
-Link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms176007.aspx
-Link: http://shrinkster.com/ypw
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Keith's Topics

  • Thumb Drive Problems
-Boss had a problem copying file to thumb drive. Getting 'Error copying file or folder' Error copying ABC.TXT. The file or directory could not be created.
-Plenty of space on drive. I check SanDisk? website and they offer nothing. I search the web and find several people with similar and their problems stemmed from copying too many files at once (we were only copying one).
-I check the file system and find that it is FAT, so I check the limitations and find it's 512 files on the root directory. We are at 158 files.
-I see a couple of ~WRxxx?.TMP files from Microsoft Word that are ancient and figure I'll see if I can delete them. It works. I delete 2 or three then try to copy a doc to the drive. It works. So, the directory entry limit is the problem, but why?
-It turns out that under FAT, each file can consume multiple entries when long filenames are used. In fact, some long file names could consume 5 entries. As MS KB article states; Any file whose name contains more than 13 characters requires 3 or more directory entries.
-Since most of these were longer file names, it was over the 512 limit.
-Simple solution as well. Just move the files into a subdirectory where there is no limit.
-Link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/120138
-Link: http://shrinkster.com/yps
-Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table
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  • Disney IT
-A lot of new wireless tablets there. I asked if they were connected and they indicated they were. I could not find access points. I know Disney is the master at concealing infrastructure to keep the experience, but I don't know how they accomplished it.
-Problems with my mag strip getting in the park one day. Once in, it didn't recognize me as in the park, so I couldn't do the fast pass deal. I knew they were connected, but I didn't realize how much it queries when making the call to issue the pass, etc.
-That is one network I'd like to check out. With that much traffic, they must really have there POS and other systems optimized and efficient. I've seen a lot of POS that use inefficient protocols and methods for communications. I wonder how much is home grown? I know Micros does some work for them with the Cruise Line. All the POS workstations were NCR.
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  • Audio Books
-My wife had this idea. If you have young kids and a long car drive ahead of you, it works well.
-We used the MOR studio to record us reading a couple of our kids books and then packed them in the van (Gandalf). I put the MP3?'s on the iPod then we could play them and they could listen and read along.
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Listener Feedback

From listener....Doug who posted a comment on the Blog related to Episode 51

Hello Mind of Root. I think Rich needs a vacation.

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Website Picks

Rich - http://

Steve - http://

Keith - http://

Last Call

Anyone....Anyone....Buehler.....Buehler....

Closing

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