Monthly Archives: April 2010

Dynamic streaming (Adaptive bitrate) using Flash media Server

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Video and the web are long time friends already. You see lots of websites with some sot of player for video content.  Also, you can see media companies and television channels serving video over the wire to the end users.

Video can be downloaded (progressive download) to the client like YouTube or can be streamed to him.

I won’t discuss the pro’s & con’s of streaming and progressive. We’ll only be discussing streaming in this post.

So, What is the post worthy problem we have when streaming video to the client?

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Backup all databases (SQL Express) with a single T-Sql

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I’m using SQL Express 2008 for development on my development machines, I’m saving the full version for the servers and not on development.

One of the things I often see when people talk about the express disadvantages is the lack of support for JOBS so you cannot create a custom backup for your database.

Well, in this post I will show you how you can create a single database on your development machine that will be responsible for all of the backups, create a table that will log the backups and a stored procedure that will do the work.

In a later post, I will also show how you can integrate this into a command line and then into your nightly backup strategy.

The most beautiful part of this solution is that it is totally free of charge and uses custom T-Sql, and the command line is using a custom tool supplied by the EXPRESS package.

So, without talking too much, let’s dive into the solution.
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