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Is my VM hyperthreaded?

Sun, 18 Oct 2020 23:01:37 -0400

Question

I’ve been provided a VMware ESXi VM (running Windows Server 2016 SE) with 8 logical processors, but I can’t tell whether the VM is hyperthreaded. (This matters for SQL Server.)

C:\Users\XXXXXXX>wmic CPU Get DeviceID,NumberOfCores,NumberOfLogicalProcessors
DeviceID NumberOfCores NumberOfLogicalProcessors
CPU0 2 2
CPU1 2 2
CPU2 2 2
CPU3 2 2

wmic says there are four CPUs each with two cores. Does fact that there are two logical processors on each core mean that HT is disabled?

Can't use GitKraken on private repositories

Fri, 08 Nov 2019 12:03:21 -0500

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I’ve been using GitKraken for a while now, since about May of this year and it never gave me any trouble, except for now. I was working on a school project and GitKraken now prevents me from opening its repository, because, apparently, this is now a Pro feature, although, I have a Github Pro account, which I use to login in Gitkraken, so, I should have access to Pro features, but I don’t.

Does a Window 10 license allow using it as a Web server?

Sun, 27 Oct 2019 17:50:53 -0400

Question

I am looking to set up a Web server for a project.

The server would be using a custom application developed in VB.Net using SQL Server for data storage. The application uses 3rd party components (DLL’s) that are available for Windows only.

convert sql-excel date to recognizable format

Sat, 26 Oct 2019 10:27:37 -0400

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I have a large csv file(1.1G) exported from SQL Server. I would like to do data wrangling in python, but I had a few problems doing this. The original csv file dates look like this 00:07.5, 00:08.3, 00:48.7, I can manually convert them to 1/12/2015 12:00:07 am, 1/12/2015 12:00:08 am, 1/12/2015 12:00:49 am in excel by formatting the entire column to make it in d/m/yy h:mm:ss, but sometimes output is weird like 100:00:00, or it just kept the time but not the dates, when I finally successfully did this, I noticed that the file size had shrank to 36.6 MB from 1.1G. I received the excel notification:

PowerShell can't see network locations after SQLPS module is loaded

Mon, 15 Aug 2016 11:38:16 -0400

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I’m trying to automate a script that backups a database in one environment, copies it to the other, then restores it there. But there’s some strange behavior going on.

First, I try to access a network location. Works like a bliss: