Saturday, June 13, 2015

SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers : For All Database Developers and Database Administrators

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Sample Chapters

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Introduction

Today we are using computers for various activities, motor vehicles for traveling to places, and mobile phones for conversation. How many of us can claim the invention of micro-processor, a basic wheel, or the telegraph? Similarly, this book was not written overnight. The journey of this book goes many years back with many individuals to be thanked for.
To begin with, we want to thank all those interviewers who reject interviewees by saying they need to know ‘the key things’ regardless of having high grades in class. The whole concept of interview questions and answers revolves around knowing those ‘key things’.

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Free Hyper V Configuration Tool
Virtual servers provide great cost benefits as opposed to real physical server. This encourages people to run many applications and services on these virtual servers. The application, that is running within the virtual servers need to be running all the time. Sometimes, during emergency situations, few VM's require more resources to manage the demanding, resource intensive applications running on them. In that critical moment, it becomes imperative to allocate more resources, such as CPU, RAM to that VM's. Hence, it is important to monitor and manage those virtual servers(VM's) continuously at all the times
The ManageEngine's Free Hyper V Configuration tool addresses this monitoring and management requirement. The Free software can configure Microsoft Hyper V Virtual server (VM's ) resources such as CPU, RAM or execute Power operations or change the boot order start-up, and also it fetches comprehensive data about the servers and its virtual machines and presents them as visually elegant graphs and reports in a desktop tool dashboard.
Manage Engine Hyper-V Configuration Tool can configure Hyper V Server from the remote location. The best part is that the tool is made available to you absolutely FREE of cost.

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·  Easy to use dashboard tool
·  Hyper V server – CPU , Memory, Disk Monitoring
·  Virtual server (VM) – CPU configuration
·  Virtual Machine (VM) – RAM configuration
·  Power on, Suspend, Power–off VM from remote

Key Benefits
ManageEngine Free Hyper V Configuration Tool provides an exclusive configuration solution for Hyper-V server, a Virtual Machine, running on Windows 2008 R2. Using the free tool, the administrator can increase or decrease the RAM capacity, or allocate more number of CPU processor for the VM, or execute 'power operations' on the Virtual servers like 'power-on' the VM's , suspend the VM's , 'Power Off' the VM and Pause the VM, and it allows the operator to select the Boot-order for each VM', either it may be from Disk, CD Rom, Pxe boot and more.
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Simple Shortcut to Use Hibernation

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Here's a Simple & quickie keyboard shortcut for those of you who like to put Windows XP into hibernation instead of the standard shutdown process.

How to Do :
  • Select Start | Turn Off Computer.
  • While in the Shut Down box, hold down the Shift key and hit the H key.
  • The computer will instantly hibernate.

Remember that Hibernate is useful because it saves the status of your Windows XP session (all the programs and documents you have open) to the hard drive, so it can automatically restore it the next time you power up.



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Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.1.8 Download links for all Operating systems

 Oracle VM VirtualBox

VirtualBox is powerful Cross-platform Virtualization Software for x86-based systems.
"Cross-platform" means that it installs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris x86 computers. And "Virtualization Software" means that you can create and run multiple Virtual Machines, running different operating systems, on the same computer at the same time. For example, you can run Windows and Linux on your Mac, run Linux and Solaris on your Windows PC, or run Windows on you Linux systems.

Oracle VM VirtualBox is available as Open Source or pre-built Binaries for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris.

Oracle VM VirtualBox

The latest release is version 4.1.8.
On this page you can download:


Oracle VM VirtualBox

Freely available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris x-86 platforms:
PlatformFile
Windows (32-bit/64-bit) VirtualBox-4.1.8-75467-Win.exe
Mac OS X VirtualBox-4.1.8-75467-OSX.dmg
Solaris 10 5/08 and later (32-bit/64-bit)VirtualBox-4.1.8-75467-SunOS.tar.gz
Linux 32-bit Platforms