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The easiest way to back up databases in SQL Azure is to run Create Database [BKUP] as copy of [DB] command, but this often fails with error CREATE DATABASE permission denied in database 'DB' What this error really means is that you do not have permissions...

I have recently become quite obsessed with 3D design and printing, thanks to OpenSCAD that made designing 3D objects just too easy not to try, if you want to make 3D models from an image or SVG file, you can do it very easily - there are other ways to...

Riham Selim Blog.dotx Riham Selim 6 40155 2013-02-07T21:12:00Z 2013-02-11T16:00:00Z 1 870 4964 Microsoft Corporation 41 11 5823 14.00 Clean Clean false false false false ...

Building while flying Performance testing in the cloud can be quite challenging, the best video I have seen so far was one that our test architect Dennis Bass used to show to people asking about what testing in the cloud is like (I am also borrowing...

I get this question quite frequently, "I know how to break on all CLR exceptions, but how do I break on a specific exception, e.g. I want to see only Sql Exceptions?" It is actually quite easy to do in WinDbg using the soe (StopOnException) command...

First Chance Exceptions Let’s assume I have written some really ugly code like what you see here: 1: int i = 0; 2: try 3: { 4: i = int.Parse(args[0]); 5: } 6: catch 7: { 8: Console.WriteLine("Invalid Argument");...

Let’s say we want to break the debugger when a specific dll is loaded, for example I want to enable some SOS commands and clr hasn’t been loaded yet, this is especially useful when you have an exception that happens too early in the program...

The approach you will take for debugging crashes is very similar between looking at the live process vs looking at a crash dump, there are some small differences that I will talk about in this post. The first question: What is wrong? If the...

Many times you get this error when you do .load sos 0:080> .load sos The call to LoadLibrary(sos) failed, Win32 error 0n2 "The system cannot find the file specified." Please check your debugger configuration and/or network access. You can...

Riham Selim Riham Selim 4 19 2012-03-08T13:59:00Z 2012-03-08T14:08:00Z 3 876 4996 Microsoft Corporation 41 11 5861 14.00 In part1 we have discussed the steps you need to get ready to start debugging...

The purpose of this post is basically to give people a quick start guide to windbg, over the next few posts I will add more details on specific problems, so you can go directly to the steps to debug your specific problem, hope you find it helpful! ...

I frequently need to Enable and configure collecting performance counters remotely in my windows azure deployment, There are a few tasks you are trying to accomplish 1- Get all roles you have for your deployment 2- Get the Diagnostics manager associated...

I recently hit an issue with my code when trying to retrieve data from Windows Azure Diagnostics table, I noticed that I'm getting only 1000 rows every time even though I have not set any limit on the number of rows I want to retrieve, it turns out...

If you are getting this error from the server right after installing SP1, you can open the event log and check for the crash report that has been created with the error details. If the error is similar to Exception: TypeInitializationException Message...

This is a number of my favorite VS tips, let me know what you think Tip #1: Select Code Using Column Mode This is one of my favorites, if you are a copy paste person like me, you will find this very useful, Here is how is works, while selecting...