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Silently Download and Install SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

cviorel — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 19:22:50 +0000

SSMS is now free and no longer requiring licensing. It is a separate install and has a more frequent release cycle, usually around 30 days. To be able to maintain up to date a larger number of SSMS installations I …

Add syntax color to crontab editor

cviorel — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 09:10:02 +0000

You might be wondering why you don’t have syntax coloring when you are editing crontab entries. This can be solved very simply by specifying your editor before starting crontab: export EDITOR=vim The change can be made persistent across the whole …

DTExec: The package execution returned DTSER_FAILURE (1)

cviorel — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 17:09:46 +0000

What to do when a SQL backup job created with SQL server Maintenance Plans fails with this error? DTExec: The package execution returned DTSER_FAILURE (1). Investigate! No useful information in the logs. Previously that day I dropped a few unneeded …

T-SQL to generate backup and restore commands

cviorel — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 10:25:55 +0000

Hi guys, Since my day to day job is a DBA, I figured I will share stuff that others might find useful. For the first time I will share a small script which will help you generate T-SQL commands in …

DriveDroid

cviorel — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:55:06 +0000

DriveDroid is an Android application that allows you to boot your PC from ISO/IMG files stored on your phone. Install it on your android phone and use it to boot any computer. You can store any number of ISO/IMG files …

Disable recent documents in Gtk2/Gtk3

cviorel — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:20:01 +0000

Use the following to disable recent documents in Gtk2/Gtk3: echo 'gtk-recent-files-max-age=0' | tee -a $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 echo 'gtk-recent-files-max-age=0' | tee -a $HOME/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini The ugly part is that there is no way one can disable ‘Recently Used’ in the GtkFileChooser dialog box.

Quick way to convert Mbox mailboxes to Maildir format

cviorel — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:00:54 +0000

A quick way to convert Mbox mailboxes to Mbox format

Bash script to backup my configs (dotfiles)

cviorel — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:42:41 +0000

I needed some script to take care of my config files and put them in a single directory. So here it is. #!/bin/bash # Display All Hidden Dot Files In a Directory # ls -a | egrep "^\." > backup_dotfiles.sh …

Moved to ArchLinux!

cviorel — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:04:33 +0000

Moved my ThinkPad T61 to ArchLinux! (Still using Ubuntu on many other machines.) Screenshot: I will post some install script I used to configure my system.

Liferea custom stylesheet

cviorel — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:52:18 +0000

I don’t like very much the default font used by Liferea, so I decided to use my custom font. Here is how: 1. Copy the default stylesheet to liferea folder in my $HOME: cp /usr/share/liferea/css/liferea.css $HOME/.liferea_1.6 2. Add this: { …