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		<title>Simple Postgresql Cron Backup</title>
		<link>http://computerplumber.com/2010/01/simple-postgresql-cron-backup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://computerplumber.com/?p=648</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a very simple method to backup your postgresql DB using a cron job and the pg_dump command. The main problem people encounter when trying to automate the pg_dump command is the password input. Now you could easily create a local user with no password, but why would you want to do that. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Installing MySQL gem for Ruby 1.9.x</title>
		<link>http://computerplumber.com/2009/07/installing-mysql-gem-for-ruby-1-9-x/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As of this writing, the MYSQL gem cannot be installed by simply doing a GEM INSTALL with ruby 1.9.1. In order to install the gem, follow these easy steps. First download the mysql gem from rubyforge, and unzip it: sudo wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/51087/mysql-ruby-2.8.1.tar.gz sudo tar -xzvf mysql-ruby-2.8.1.tar.gz cd mysql-ruby-2.8.1 Now, you will need to compile the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ODBC.ini update did not work</title>
		<link>http://computerplumber.com/2009/07/odbc-ini-update-did-not-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.computerplumber.ca/?p=558</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After running the same database for quite some time for a rails application, we finally had to change the database in odbc.ini to point to the new server. Alas we changed the odbc.ini file, shut down the old database and relaunched the application. Expecting the application to immediately start talking to the database on reboot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Duplicate Fields in a Database Table</title>
		<link>http://computerplumber.com/2009/05/finding-duplicate-fields-in-a-database-table/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 19:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.computerplumber.ca/?p=446</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Occasionally it is necessary to find duplicate fields within a database table.  The following query can be used to accomplish this easily. SELECT * FROM 'table' WHERE ('item' IN (SELECT 'item' FROM 'table' GROUP BY 'item' HAVING COUNT(*) &#62; 1)) ORDER BY 'item' This will list all rows in the desired &#8216;table&#8217; where the given [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quickly Restore a SQL Server Database</title>
		<link>http://computerplumber.com/2009/05/quickly-restore-a-sql-server-database/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 19:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.computerplumber.ca/?p=452</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you frequently need to restore other peoples DB&#8217;s for testing here is a quick way to do so in Microsoft Sql Server. Open your Sql Server manager Create a new database (note the names and locations of the created files) Select the newly created DB and select Restore. Select from Device and choose the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rails and Microsoft Sql Server</title>
		<link>http://computerplumber.com/2009/04/rails-and-microsoft-sql-server/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.computerplumber.ca/?p=431</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So you want to connect your rails application to Microsoft SQL Server. The following instructions will take you through setting this up quite simply. This setup is on a a Ubuntu 8.04 server connecting to SQL Server 2000 (we will use the Northwind sample database). The first thing you need to do is install the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costs Using Amazon EC2 &amp; S3</title>
		<link>http://computerplumber.com/2009/02/costs-using-amazon-ec2-s3/</link>
		<comments>http://computerplumber.com/2009/02/costs-using-amazon-ec2-s3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.computerplumber.ca/?p=383</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Figuring out all the costs when hosting on EC2 using S3 storage can be tricky. This is break down of what you can approximately expect to pay using a few basic scenarios, such as a lamp server and S3 backups, with Amazon services. This will also compare the costs to what you would expect to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Installing the Mysql Gem</title>
		<link>http://computerplumber.com/2009/01/installing-the-mysql-gem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.computerplumber.ca/?p=201</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is just a self reminder. I always seem to forget the dev package that is required to build the mysql gem. Failure to install this results in all kinds of headaches: sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev Then install the gem and you are all set: sudo gem install mysql]]></description>
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		<title>Shrinking a Sql Server Transaction Log</title>
		<link>http://computerplumber.com/2009/01/shrinking-a-sql-server-transaction-log/</link>
		<comments>http://computerplumber.com/2009/01/shrinking-a-sql-server-transaction-log/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.computerplumber.ca/?p=181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a good post that has detailed how to shrink the Microsoft SQL Server tranasaction log using DBCC Shrinkfile. Having had to do this many times, it is nice to see it detailed so simply. For perpetuity I have copied the directions below, but full credit goes to David for posting this. First things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simple Script to Backup Smaller MYSQL Databases remotely</title>
		<link>http://computerplumber.com/2008/12/simple-script-to-backup-smaller-mysql-databases/</link>
		<comments>http://computerplumber.com/2008/12/simple-script-to-backup-smaller-mysql-databases/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.computerplumber.ca/?p=117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a simple script you can use to add as a job that you can use to backup smaller remote MYSQL DB&#8217;s.  This script will take a mysql dump, date it, then add it to an archive (with the date), then the uncompressed file is deleted.  It is perfect to use as a daily [...]]]></description>
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