Have Access automatically print your reports
October 16, 2007
If you need to print out an Access report by 10:00 every Friday morning, you don’t have to do it manually. Follow these steps to create a macro to print the report and schedule it to automatically run at that time: Open the database that contains the…
Add autonumbering to your Excel spreadsheet
October 16, 2007
Unlike Access, Excel does not have an autonumbering feature that increments a number each time you add a new row. With Excel 2003 and 2007, you can use the Row function to add your own autonumbering to a data list. For example, say you are creating a…
Get e-mail notifications for Windows Server 2003 file storage activities
October 16, 2007
Using file screening and reporting with Windows Server 2003, you can receive alerts pertaining to violations of file screen conditions, helping to identify trends, times, and perhaps even specific users who download unauthorized files. Taking steps to eliminate unauthorized files in your server environment is a great…
Get e-mail notifications for Windows Server 2003 file storage activity
October 16, 2007
There are a few settings that can help you find unauthorized files stored on your Windows Server 2003 network. By using file screening and reporting with Windows Server 2003, you can receive alerts pertaining to violations of file screen conditions, helping to identify trends, times, and possibly specific users who…
PostgreSQL 8.3 beta released
October 16, 2007
The first beta of the PostgreSQL database version 8.3 has been released featuring dozens of new and improved features, announced Sun Microsystems on October 15 at its Open Source Summit press event. The final release is expected in about eight weeks. The new features added to the…
Download the Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate
October 15, 2007
Microsoft calls it RC0 and it is the availability of the first release candidate for Windows Server 2008. You can download a copy directly from Microsoft or request a DVD. [poll=12] Here are some links about Windows Server 2008 that might be of interest…
Should you upgrade to Windows Server 2008?
October 15, 2007
There is a lot of hype in the IT industry when it comes to new releases of products. Look at the iPhone, Windows Vista, WiMax, OSX Leopard, etc. Hype is a part of our culture. Being able to sift through the hype and make a logical decision is what separates…
The release of Tidal Horizon for Peoplesoft 1.8
October 15, 2007
In recent news, Tidal Software, a leading market provider of scheduling and performance management software released Tidal Horizon 1.8 for PeopleSoft, the newest release of its enterprise class application performance management solution. This new release provides service level monitoring and automated performance analysis for the PeopleSoft Enterprise applications. …
Switching Oracle Portal to a new database is easier than Tech Support would have you believe
October 15, 2007
For those of you who do not have an Oracle Portal to support, count yourselves lucky. But unfortunately I do, and we recently ran into a problem that forced us to quickly move to a new metadata database. And once again the lousy Oracle documentation, coupled with lousy…
Switching Oracle Portal to a new database is easier than Oracle Tech Support says
October 15, 2007
If you do not have to support an Oracle Portal, consider yourself lucky. We recently ran into a problem that forced us to quickly move to a new metadata database. Once again, the lousy Oracle documentation, coupled with lousy Oracle Tech Support, had us believing it would be a week-long…
