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I’m using flock to update this blog post. Remarkable easy so far…

This is part of a little bit of research on our part, where we are playing with various tools to see if we can make it easier for novices to post on their blogs - we are talking here about people who may not have known what a blog is until we introduced them to it.

Just uploaded a new PHP script to our web server and got this:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/xxx/httpdocs/xxx on line 37

The new file is PHP5, the web server is running PHP4.xx.

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There are a lot of articles to be found on this subject but here is a condensed procedure:

Your SQL transaction log is too big and you need to shrink it before SQL server explodes through lack of disk space:

1. Back up your database - optional but a good idea as you are about to invalidate your transaction log backup history (more…)

While trying to backup a SQL database using Microsoft SQL server management studio the following error occurs:

Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
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Backup failed for Server ‘ServerName’. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo) (more…)