• There are four lights!

    I’m not sure what is it with tech manufacturers these days. They have to make the LED’s brighter and brighter. Below you will see four switches. The bottom two Cisco units have resonable brightness LED’s but Dell EMC went over the top with the S4100 series. They want us to know those fans are working.…


  • Microsoft Word Top Margin is Missing

    I just had this issue last week and it took me much longer than I care to admit to figure it out so I figured I’d make a Blog Post about it. As you can see from my screenshot below the Top Margin is missing. To fix the problem you have to mouse over to…


  • DANGER!!! REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS

    Danger Do NOT RUN DBCC CheckDB REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS DBCC CHECKDB (‘DATABASENAME’, REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS); NEVER run the command above on a production database. As it says you will most likely loose data. That syntax commands SQL to throw out any corrupted 8K Page. There can be lots of data in that page and there may be multiple pages…


  • Update, Please…

    Update, Please…

    I recently read a blog post on my friend Randolph West blog about Windows Updates. Please read what he said here. I’d like to take a minute and both echo what Randolph said and expand on it. Keeping your software up to date is important. I’ve heard all the excuses and even used them myself.…


  • DBCC CHECKDB

    DBCC CHECK DB Steve and I recently repaired SQL Database Corruption for a customer who wasn’t running DBCC Check DB on a regular basis. Please don’t do this. DBCC Check DB both needs to be run on a regular basis AND you need to be monitoring the results. It’s so important to know about corruption…