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Thursday, February 21, 2008

ITWorx' products ExamExpert and Catalyst at The Microsoft® Ingenuity Point Contest

Vote is open at the The Microsoft® Ingenuity Point Contest to select your favorite product out of many innovative software products in Health care, Education , and Clean Technology.
ITWorx (where I work as a Senior Software Engineer), participates with 2 products:
Have a look, and vote !!

Restart your machine after installing Fulltext service for MS SQL Server Express 2005

I had MS SQL server express 2005 installed without Fulltext index support. When I needed it, I installed it, created a catalog, an index, and started change tracking, then I tried to make simple CONTAINS query, nothing returned.
I worked with FTS many times and for years (mainly with SQL Server 2000). It was hard to retry many times to get any result with not good.
I tried many times to drop the index, start full population, incremental population. Nothing worked.
I looked into the event viewer, I found this error:

Errors were encountered during full-text index population for table or indexed view '[dbname].[dbo].[TableName]', database ''[dbname].[' (table or indexed view ID '1550628567', database ID '7'). Please see full-text crawl logs for details.

I looked in the fulltext log ( located at : installationpath/MSSQL.1\MSSQL\LOG\SQLFTxxxxxxxxxx.LOG.x) , this info existed in error logs:

Error '0x80040e09' occurred during full-text index population for table or indexed view '[dbname].[dbo].[TableName]' (table or indexed view ID '1550628567', database ID '7'), full-text key value 0x00000001. Attempt will be made to reindex it.
The component 'sqlfth90.dll' reported error while indexing. Component path 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\COM\sqlfth90.dll'.

After searching for such error, I found that after installing fulltext service on MS SQL Express 2005, the machine must be restarted, and that this is mentioned in the ReadMe!!

If only we read the manual !!!!

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Another reason for “Cannot Generate SSPI Context” error

Today, I had trouble with SharePoint server. Each time I open the main page I get the error page (500-internal server error). This error occurred in an environment that worked fine for months. But suffered an accidental electricity cut off.

When I looked in the event log, I realized that SharePoint cannot connect to SQL Server configuration database (which existed on another server) the error details contained the famous error:
“Cannot Generate SSPI Context”
I tried to ping the server, flush DNS, connected to SQL Server using SQL authentication, restarted some services and machines, just to get the same error.

Searching Google led me to a good article: Troubleshooting Cannot Generate SSPI Context Errors , which is really good, but I still did not find the solution.

Finally, after consulting an infrastructure engineer, he suggested to check that the net logon service is running on the domain controller. I checked in and I found that it was paused. After running it, everything went well.

So, the next time you get “Cannot Generate SSPI Context” when connecting to SQL Server, add this check to the list of checks you do, and good luck.

Friday, February 8, 2008

Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison

This is a great guide when you decide to buy visual studio:
Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison

Note that Standard edition differs from Professional edition mainly in office tools, crystal reports, test tools, server explorer. Whether these features worth the price difference (about $440) depends on your needs.