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Cloudkick customed plugins for windows

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Cloudkick which is part of RackSpace provides Agent based monitoring for external servers and cloud servers. Other than monitoring computer resources such as CPU, memory, HDD utilization. It is able to cater for customed check which is known as customed plugin. In other words, Cloudkick offers limitless way of administrator to monitor their IT assets as host level which is limited to the operating systems shell scripting support as well as limited to the creativity of the scripters.

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Migrating MSDE 2000 db to MSSQL 2005 Express

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Scenario :
An ASP web application in which the backend DBMS is running on MSDE 2000 SQL Server.

Objective :
Making the ASP web application to use MSSQL 2005 Express on to the server. On top of that database created on the MSDE 2000 Instance needs to be migrated over to the MSSQL 2005 .

Scope :
1. MSDE 2000 SQL Server instance name is localhostHELM , MSSQL db name HelmDb.
2. MSDE 2000 SQL Server instance is running at a non MSSQL default port (not 1433).
3. MSSQL Server 2005 Express is used.
4. Using default MSSQL Server 2005 Express instance localhostSQLEXPRESS .
5. OS used Windows Server 2003.

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