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		<title>How To Turn Off eShop Test Mode</title>
		<link>http://kwatog.com/blog/wordpress/how-to-turn-off-eshop-test-mode/</link>
		<comments>http://kwatog.com/blog/wordpress/how-to-turn-off-eshop-test-mode/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WordPress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eshop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[estore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[live]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online store]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kwatog.com/?p=747</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are using the latest WordPress version (which you should!!!), you&#8217;ll notice that eShop plugin will be perpetually set to Test Mode and there&#8217;s no way to turn it off. There&#8217;s quite a number of suggestions in the official forum at quirm.net but as it turns out, the option is inadvertently hidden. All you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are using the latest WordPress version (which you should!!!), you&#8217;ll notice that eShop plugin will be perpetually set to Test Mode and there&#8217;s no way to turn it off. There&#8217;s quite a number of suggestions in the official forum at quirm.net but as it turns out, the option is inadvertently hidden. All you have to do is to activate the two column mode of the dashboard and you&#8217;ll be able to see the dropdown option.</p>
<p><!-- more --><br />
To be clear, here&#8217;s the screenshot on how to do it.<br />
<strong>Step 1 : </strong> click on 2 in the Number of Columns Screen options.<br />
<a href="http://kwatog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/eshop_turn_off_test_mode_1.jpg"><img src="http://kwatog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/eshop_turn_off_test_mode_1-300x67.jpg" alt="" title="eshop_turn_off_test_mode_1" width="300" height="67" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-749" /></a><br />
<strong>Step 2 : </strong> Update the status to Live and click on Save.<br />
<a href="http://kwatog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/eshop_turn_off_test_mode_2.jpg"><img src="http://kwatog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/eshop_turn_off_test_mode_2-300x160.jpg" alt="" title="eshop_turn_off_test_mode_2" width="300" height="160" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-748" /></a></p>
<p>For those looking for it, I know how you feel. I just felt too stupid to not thinking about it. Admittedly, it&#8217;s probably one of the many plugins affected by the latest WordPress enhancements. I bet once rich updated the plugin to conform with the new standard, then it won&#8217;t be a problem anymore. </p>
<p>Source:</p>
<p>http://quirm.net/forum/topic.php?id=4716</p>
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		<title>Agoda Hotel Rate Search Plugin for WordPress</title>
		<link>http://kwatog.com/wp-plugins/agoda-hotel-rate-search-plugin-for-wordpress/</link>
		<comments>http://kwatog.com/wp-plugins/agoda-hotel-rate-search-plugin-for-wordpress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Plugins]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kwatog.com/?p=736</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s my first plugin for 2012. It&#8217;s a plugin to show the agoda seach widget inside your post. If more applicable for travel websites who are also Agoda Affiliate Partner. upload agoda_hrs.php to plugins folder activate the plugin set client id, country id and city id in the settings menu add [agoda_hrs] shortcode on your [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s my first plugin for 2012. It&#8217;s a plugin to show the agoda seach widget inside your post. If more applicable for travel websites who are also Agoda Affiliate Partner.</p>
<ol>
<li>upload agoda_hrs.php to plugins folder</li>
<li>activate the plugin</li>
<li>set client id, country id and city id in the settings menu</li>
<li>add [agoda_hrs] shortcode on your post.</li>
</ol>
<p><span id="more-736"></span><br />
In case you don&#8217;t know how to get the country code, city id and hotel id, here&#8217;s the quick tutorial. Actually, more of a screenshot.<br />
<img src="http://kwatog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/agoda_get_hotel_codes_step1.jpg" alt="" title="agoda_get_hotel_codes_step1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-740" /><br />
<img src="http://kwatog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/agoda_get_hotel_codes_step2.jpg" alt="" title="agoda_get_hotel_codes_step2" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-739" /></p>
<p><a href='http://kwatog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/agoda_hrs.zip'>Download Here</a></p>
<p>**** NOTE ************<br />
<del datetime="2012-01-12T07:53:30+00:00">I&#8217;m planning to have this plugin submitted to WordPress plugin repository. If and when it is approved, then all further updates and downloads will be moved there.</del> The plugin is denied. Here&#8217;s the reason.<br />
<code>Hi, Sorry but single affiliate searches like this are no longer accepted into the directory</code><br />
Anyway, I&#8217;ll just serve it on this site. </p>
<p>****** I&#8217;ll be updating this post continually. Please bear with me if I can&#8217;t write all the details. ******</p>
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		<title>comfort Host Panel Down</title>
		<link>http://kwatog.com/blog/hosting/comfort-host-panel-down/</link>
		<comments>http://kwatog.com/blog/hosting/comfort-host-panel-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 07:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a major database problem in one of my sites the other day (more on that later). Though I was able to rectify that with my backup, I wanted to restore my VPS from it&#8217;s daily backup using the control panel of ComfortHost. Unfortunately, I cannot access the main site and neither the panel [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had a major database problem in one of my sites the other day (more on that later). Though I was able to rectify that with my backup, I wanted to restore my VPS from it&#8217;s daily backup using the control panel of ComfortHost. Unfortunately, I cannot access the main site and neither the panel site. That&#8217;s odd since my VPS is still up. Since the control panel is down, you cannot raise any ticket.<br />
<span id="more-731"></span><br />
I tried again today but the site is still down. I tried to look for complaints in webhosting talk and surprisingly, there&#8217;s not a lot of complaints. I was able to find one thread with reply from Quell. Apparently, their main website is hosted in a third-party company so that in case their DC is down, the customers will still be able to contact them. unfortunately, it is their third-party host that is having some problems now. Anyway, here&#8217;s the explanation of Quell in webhostingtalk.</p>
<p><img src="http://kwatog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/comfort_host_panel_down.jpg" alt="" title="comfort_host_panel_down" width="622" height="433" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-732" /><br />
I want to reiterate that my <strong>server is up</strong>. Only the control panel is down. Not a deal breaker for me but I hope they manage to resolve their problem with their host. </p>
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		<title>How to Cancel Dropbox Upload</title>
		<link>http://kwatog.com/blog/how-to-cancel-dropbox-upload/</link>
		<comments>http://kwatog.com/blog/how-to-cancel-dropbox-upload/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gadgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3g]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dropbox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hspa+]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[samsung galaxy sii]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kwatog.com/?p=727</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are times when you inadvertently upload large files from your phone to your cloud storage like Dropbox. And when you&#8217;re on an area with weak 3G/HSPA+ coverage, it will take forever to upload the file. The other problem is&#8230; it will drain your battery. That&#8217;s exactly what happened to me last night. What&#8217;s more [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are times when you inadvertently upload large files from your phone to your cloud storage like Dropbox. And when you&#8217;re on an area with weak 3G/HSPA+ coverage, it will take forever to upload the file. The other problem is&#8230; it will drain your battery. That&#8217;s exactly what happened to me last night. What&#8217;s more annoying is that I can&#8217;t cancel the Dropbox upload. At least, I don&#8217;t know how.<br />
<span id="more-727"></span><br />
Apparently, it&#8217;s simple via the little known function via the Settings.You can cancel your uploads via </p>
<ol>
<li>Settings&#8211;>Retry failed uploads</li>
<li>Settings&#8211;>Clear uploads</li>
</ol>
<p>Here&#8217;s the screenshot.<br />
<img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14765699/dropbox_cancel_upload.jpeg"/></p>
<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of Dropbox and that&#8217;s why I have it in all of my devices. I stopped bringing my USB flash disk after I started using it. It&#8217;s just so simple and here in <a href="http://kwatog.wordpress.com">Singapore</a> where there&#8217;s internet everywhere, it&#8217;s even more useful. I have it on my <a href="http://kwatog.wordpress.com/category/samsung-galaxy-sii/">Samsung Galaxy SII</a>. Instead of using a cable, I just upload the file via Dropbox and access the same file on my desktop. </p>
<p>I have one suggestion to Dropbox, though. If they can put that menu somewhere else other than the Settings, it would be better. It&#8217;s not very intuitive to dig into the Settings to do it. Besides, settings is where you set your configurations. Cancelling an upload is an action, not a setting. But still, I love Dropbox.</p>
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		<title>How to Get The First File in Unix</title>
		<link>http://kwatog.com/blog/how-to-get-the-first-file-in-unix/</link>
		<comments>http://kwatog.com/blog/how-to-get-the-first-file-in-unix/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kwatog.com/?p=721</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you are looking files using ls or find command and only want to get the first file found, the command would be like. ls -l /any/path/filename*&#124;sed -e 's/\//,/g'&#124;awk -F "," '{print $NF}'&#124;head -1 Of course, you can also use it in find command. find /any/path/ -name "filename*" -type f&#124;sed -e 's/\//,/g'&#124;awk -F "," [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In case you are looking files using ls or find command and only want to get the first file found, the command would be like.<br />
<code><br />
ls -l /any/path/filename*|sed -e 's/\//,/g'|awk -F "," '{print $NF}'|head -1<br />
</code></p>
<p>Of course, you can also use it in find command.</p>
<p><code><br />
find /any/path/ -name "filename*" -type f|sed -e 's/\//,/g'|awk -F "," '{print $NF}'|head -1<br />
</code><br />
<span id="more-721"></span><br />
The key here is the head -1 command which limits the output to just one line. I came about this when I was investigating a problem in one of the programs that I maintain. The original code is as below.<br />
<code><br />
inputFile=`ls -l /any/path/filename*|sed -e 's/\//,/g'|awk -F "," '{print $NF}'`<br />
</code><br />
It looks correct, runs perfectly during testing and there seems to be no problem. However, if there&#8217;s more than one file, the variable inputFile will have multiple-line data. When used in a command, the problem starts. Basically, it was only expecting one file. When more than one file is push, inputFile should just get the first file. That&#8217;s why pipe-in another command which is the head -1. </p>
<p>In case you need the last file, then just change the head -1  to tail -1. </p>
<p>Bugs like this is hard to find. When we test or investigate, we usually use just one file to run through the whole program. And that&#8217;s what happened with this issue was raised to me. The previous developer is already pulling his hair because in order to get to that problematic line, he had to go trace it though a deep layer of shell scripts. </p>
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		<title>How to Display Seconds in Unix File Timestamp</title>
		<link>http://kwatog.com/blog/how-to-display-seconds-in-unix-file-timestamp/</link>
		<comments>http://kwatog.com/blog/how-to-display-seconds-in-unix-file-timestamp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kwatog.com/?p=717</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, there&#8217;s no native shell command to show the seconds portion of a unix file timestamp. The nearest to this functionality is stat. However, it&#8217;s not always available in unix systems. I&#8217;m using HP-UX and it&#8217;s not installed on our server. Instead, I needed to use a one-line perl program shown below. perl -e .foreach(@ARGV){$t [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Apparently, there&#8217;s no native shell command to show the seconds portion of a unix file timestamp. The nearest to this functionality is stat. However, it&#8217;s not always available in unix systems. I&#8217;m using HP-UX and it&#8217;s not installed on our server.<br />
<!-- more --><br />
Instead, I needed to use a one-line perl program shown below.<br />
<code><br />
perl -e .foreach(@ARGV){$t =localtime ( ( ( stat ( $_ ) ) [9] ) ); printf(.%-20s %s\n.,$_,$t);}. filename.txt<br />
</code></p>
<p>My perl knowledge is limited to its name. I have nothing beyond that. That&#8217;s my way of saying &#8216;I don&#8217;t know what it is.&#8217; But it works!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001ADL1SG/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=blissweddip0d-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B001ADL1SG"><img border="0" src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14765699/crane_drop_shape_cool_mist_humidifier.jpg" ></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=blissweddip0d-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B001ADL1SG" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /><br />
Source:</p>
<p>http://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/41325-command-get-file-timestamp-including-seconds-aix-5-3-a.html</p>
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		<title>SpotVPS First Impressions</title>
		<link>http://kwatog.com/blog/hosting/spotvps-first-impressions/</link>
		<comments>http://kwatog.com/blog/hosting/spotvps-first-impressions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the unfortunate incident last week with NordicVPS, I decided to look for a new VPS host. As usual, I went to lowendbox and get the reviews in webhostingtalk. It&#8217;s there where I stumbled upon a promo from SpotVPS. As it turns out, SpotVPS is a low-cost VPS offering of ComfortHost.NET. And who are they? [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After the unfortunate incident last week with NordicVPS, I decided to look for a new VPS host. As usual, I went to lowendbox and get the reviews in webhostingtalk. It&#8217;s there where I stumbled upon a promo from <a href="http://www.comforthost.net/billing/aff.php?aff=115">SpotVPS</a>. As it turns out, SpotVPS is a low-cost VPS offering of ComfortHost.NET.</p>
<p>And who are they? Here&#8217;s what they say about themselves.</p>
<blockquote><p>
ComfortHost.NET have been here since 2004 offer high quality web hosting solutions. All SpotVPS nodes are fully owned hardware and are colocated. All servers used by SpotVPS have been bought with internal cash. Our only monthly cost for these servers are the actual colocation. We are financially healthy and profitable since day one. We are NOT going out of buisness any time soon. We are in it for the long run!
</p></blockquote>
<p>ComfortHost on http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1110770</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the plan that I got.<br />
$6.99/mo Ultimate Plan<br />
Memory: 2048mb (2gb)<br />
HD Space: 50gb (50,000mb)<br />
Bandwidth: 1,000gb (1TB)<br />
Monthly Price: $6.99/mo<br />
Setup Fee: FREE!<br />
FREE GIGABIT PORT &#8211; FREE WEEKLY BACKUPS &#8211; FREE HARDWARE RAID<br />
Location: Orlando, FL at DimeNOC<br />
Test IP Address: 72.29.87.105</p>
<p>2GB RAM for $6.99. That&#8217;s sweet. Want to try it yourself? <a href="http://www.comforthost.net/billing/aff.php?aff=115">ORDER NOW</a></p>
<p>Word of caution,though. This plan (and all other dirt-cheap vps that I know of) comes with very limited support. You are usually given your VPS, IP and OS install and you have to do the rest. I installed mine with NGiNx, PHP, MySQL and it&#8217;s already up and running for 7 days straight now. </p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the result of the test I made on my VPS.<br />
<code><br />
[root@vps ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync<br />
16384+0 records in<br />
16384+0 records out<br />
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 14.9939 seconds, 71.6 MB/s</p>
<p>[root@vps ~]# wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test<br />
--2011-11-24 18:10:35-- http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test<br />
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175<br />
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.<br />
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK<br />
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]<br />
Saving to: `100mb.test'</p>
<p>100%[==============================================================================================================================>] 104,857,600 66.8M/s in 1.5s<br />
2011-11-24 18:10:36 (66.8 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]<br />
</code></p>
<p>I&#8217;ll try to come up with a review together with my other hosting providers. <img src='http://kwatog.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Nordic VPS Is Down Again</title>
		<link>http://kwatog.com/blog/hosting/nordic-vps-is-down-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a long time client of NordicVPS and it is really sad that their service level is going down the drain lately. First, it was the billing and payment issues. Lately, the unscheduled downtimes.. and now 4 hours on, the whole nordicvps site is down. For the month of November, I already experienced at least [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m a long time client of NordicVPS and it is really sad that their service level is going down the drain lately. First, it was the billing and payment issues. Lately, the unscheduled downtimes.. and now  4 hours on, the whole nordicvps site is down. For the month of November, I already experienced at least two long downtimes (5 hours and more). Sadly, a few of my money sites are hosted on my vps with them. Apparently, they have problems with their German servers.<br />
<img src="http://kwatog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/nordic_vps_down_again-300x108.jpg" alt="" title="nordic_vps_down_again" width="300" height="108" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-698" /></p>
<p>However, speculations is rife that the reason the servers are down is because NordicVPS hasn&#8217;t pay yet. Here&#8217;s a screenshot of one of the posts in Webhosting talk.<br />
<img src="http://kwatog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/nordic_vps_non-payment.jpg" alt="" title="nordic_vps_non-payment" width="459" height="149" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-700" /></p>
<p>I really hope that it&#8217;s not true. </p>
<p>My friend, <a href="http://shopmoko.com">Crixus</a>, experienced more than a week of downtime and his tickets still unanswered. Admittedly, his site is up now but he&#8217;s planning to move elsewhere. He already paid 6 months in advance. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m thinking of moving to another unmanaged VPS hosting, too. It&#8217;s a painful process again given the number of domains I have in my NordicVPS account. I think I still have some credits with them, too. I&#8217;ll try to do it slowly. My concern is, most of the sites I host there have pagerank and if I move it to another server, the PR will be gone. </p>
<p>Sad, really sad.</p>
<p>**** UPDATE ****<br />
Server is now up!!!!<br />
However, the train has left the station. Time to wind down this server. <img src='http://kwatog.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' />  I wish Sean and his team good luck.</p>
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		<title>Codes for Web Safe Colors</title>
		<link>http://kwatog.com/blog/web-design/web-safe-colors-codes/</link>
		<comments>http://kwatog.com/blog/web-design/web-safe-colors-codes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kwatog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[color code]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hex code for colors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web safe colors]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kwatog.com/?p=75</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When developing themes or doing anything that requires colors, it&#8217;s important that you know the hex codes of the color you want to use. They are the 6-number codes that represent a specific color which you use on your CSS. The list below shows the codes for web safe colors. I kept this list on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When developing themes or doing anything that requires colors, it&#8217;s important that you know the <strong>hex codes of the color </strong>you want to use. They are the 6-number codes that represent a specific color which you use on your CSS.
</p>
<p>The list below shows the codes for <strong>web safe colors</strong>. I kept this list on my usb drive and always had seach from the net numerous times as I don&#8217;t bring my usb drive with me all the time. Take note that most of the monitors and browsers can now display millions of colors and shades. Go somewhere else to get all of them hehe
</p>
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<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#000000">000000</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#000033">000033</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#000066">000066</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#000099">000099</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#0000cc">0000CC</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#0000ff">0000FF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#003300">003300</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#003333">003333</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#003366">003366</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#003399">003399</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#0033cc">0033CC</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#0033ff">0033FF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#006600">006600</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#006633">006633</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#006666">006666</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#006699">006699</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#0066cc">0066CC</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#0066ff">0066FF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#009900">009900</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#009933">009933</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#009966">009966</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#009999">009999</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#0099cc">0099CC</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#0099ff">0099FF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#00cc00">00CC00</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#00cc33">00CC33</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#00cc66">00CC66</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#00cc99">00CC99</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#00cccc">00CCCC</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#00ccff">00CCFF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#00ff00">00FF00</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#00ff33">00FF33</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#00ff66">00FF66</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#00ff99">00FF99</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#00ffcc">00FFCC</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#00ffff">00FFFF</td>
</tr>
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<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#330000">330000</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#330033">330033</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#330066">330066</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#330099">330099</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#3300cc">3300CC</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#3300ff">3300FF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#333300">333300</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#333333">333333</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#333366">333366</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#333399">333399</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#3333cc">3333CC</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#3333ff">3333FF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#336600">336600</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#336633">336633</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#336666">336666</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#336699">336699</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#3366cc">3366CC</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#3366ff">3366FF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#339900">339900</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#339933">339933</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#339966">339966</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#339999">339999</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#3399cc">3399CC</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#3399ff">3399FF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#33cc00">33CC00</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#33cc33">33CC33</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#33cc66">33CC66</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#33cc99">33CC99</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#33cccc">33CCCC</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#33ccff">33CCFF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#33ff00">33FF00</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#33ff33">33FF33</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#33ff66">33FF66</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#33ff99">33FF99</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#33ffcc">33FFCC</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#33ffff">33FFFF</td>
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<tr>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#660000">660000</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#660033">660033</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#660066">660066</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#660099">660099</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#6600cc">6600CC</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#6600ff">6600FF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#663300">663300</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#663333">663333</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#663366">663366</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#663399">663399</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#6633cc">6633CC</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#6633ff">6633FF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#666600">666600</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#666633">666633</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#666666">666666</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#666699">666699</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#6666cc">6666CC</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#6666ff">6666FF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#669900">669900</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#669933">669933</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#669966">669966</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#669999">669999</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#6699cc">6699CC</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#6699ff">6699FF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#66cc00">66CC00</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#66cc33">66CC33</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#66cc66">66CC66</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#66cc99">66CC99</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#66cccc">66CCCC</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#66ccff">66CCFF</td>
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<tr>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#66ff00">66FF00</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#66ff33">66FF33</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#66ff66">66FF66</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#66ff99">66FF99</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#66ffcc">66FFCC</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#66ffff">66FFFF</td>
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<tr>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#990000">990000</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#990033">990033</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#990066">990066</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#990099">990099</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#9900cc">9900CC</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#9900ff">9900FF</td>
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<tr>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#993300">993300</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#993333">993333</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#993366">993366</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#993399">993399</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#9933cc">9933CC</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#9933ff">9933FF</td>
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<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#996600">996600</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#996633">996633</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#996666">996666</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#996699">996699</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#9966cc">9966CC</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#9966ff">9966FF</td>
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<td align="center" bgcolor="#999900">999900</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#999933">999933</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#999966">999966</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#999999">999999</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#9999cc">9999CC</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#9999ff">9999FF</td>
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<tr>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#99cc00">99CC00</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#99cc33">99CC33</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#99cc66">99CC66</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#99cc99">99CC99</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#99cccc">99CCCC</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#99ccff">99CCFF</td>
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<tr>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#99ff00">99FF00</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#99ff33">99FF33</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#99ff66">99FF66</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#99ff99">99FF99</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#99ffcc">99FFCC</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#99ffff">99FFFF</td>
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<tr>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#cc0000">CC0000</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#cc0033">CC0033</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#cc0066">CC0066</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#cc0099">CC0099</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#cc00cc">CC00CC</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#cc00ff">CC00FF</td>
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<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#cc3300">CC3300</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#cc3333">CC3333</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#cc3366">CC3366</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#cc3399">CC3399</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#cc33cc">CC33CC</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#cc33ff">CC33FF</td>
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<tr>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#cc6600">CC6600</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#cc6633">CC6633</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#cc6666">CC6666</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#cc6699">CC6699</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#cc66cc">CC66CC</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#cc66ff">CC66FF</td>
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<tr>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#cc9900">CC9900</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#cc9933">CC9933</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#cc9966">CC9966</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#cc9999">CC9999</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#cc99cc">CC99CC</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#cc99ff">CC99FF</td>
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<td align="center" bgcolor="#cccc00">CCCC00</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#cccc33">CCCC33</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#cccc66">CCCC66</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#cccc99">CCCC99</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#cccccc">CCCCCC</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff">CCCCFF</td>
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<tr>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#ccff00">CCFF00</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#ccff33">CCFF33</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#ccff66">CCFF66</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#ccff99">CCFF99</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc">CCFFCC</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#ccffff">CCFFFF</td>
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<tr>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#ff0000">FF0000</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#ff0033">FF0033</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#ff0066">FF0066</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#ff0099">FF0099</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#ff00cc">FF00CC</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#ff00ff">FF00FF</td>
</tr>
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<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#ff3300">FF3300</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#ff3333">FF3333</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#ff3366">FF3366</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#ff3399">FF3399</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#ff33cc">FF33CC</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#ff33ff">FF33FF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#ff6600">FF6600</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#ff6633">FF6633</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#ff6666">FF6666</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#ff6699">FF6699</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#ff66cc">FF66CC</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#ffffff" bgcolor="#ff66ff">FF66FF</td>
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<td align="center" bgcolor="#ff9900">FF9900</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#ff9933">FF9933</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#ff9966">FF9966</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#ff9999">FF9999</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#ff99cc">FF99CC</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#ff99ff">FF99FF</td>
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<td align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc00">FFCC00</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc33">FFCC33</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc66">FFCC66</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99">FFCC99</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc">FFCCCC</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#ffccff">FFCCFF</td>
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<td align="center" bgcolor="#ffff00">FFFF00</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#ffff33">FFFF33</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#ffff66">FFFF66</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#ffff99">FFFF99</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffcc">FFFFCC</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff">FFFFFF</td>
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<p>By the way, I only realized now that my little blog site lacks color. Too bad I only realized this after making this post.</p>
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		<title>Monitor SQL Server DB Processes</title>
		<link>http://kwatog.com/blog/uncategorized/monitor-sql-server-db-processes/</link>
		<comments>http://kwatog.com/blog/uncategorized/monitor-sql-server-db-processes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kwatog.com/?p=70</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you don&#8217;t have DBArtisan or other more advanced SQL Editor, you can use the query below. Take note that you&#8217;ll need necessary rights to be able to run it. select spid, status, blocked, open_tran, waitresource, waittype, waittime, cmd, lastwaittype, cpu, physical_io, hostname, hostprocess, loginame, program_name, net_address, net_library, dbid, ecid, kpid, nt_domain, nt_username, uid, sid, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you don&#8217;t have DBArtisan or other more advanced SQL Editor, you can use the query below. Take note that you&#8217;ll need necessary rights to be able to run it.</p>
<p><code>select spid, status, blocked, open_tran, waitresource, waittype,<br />
         waittime, cmd, lastwaittype, cpu, physical_io,<br />
         hostname, hostprocess, loginame, program_name, net_address,<br />
         net_library, dbid, ecid, kpid,  nt_domain, nt_username, uid, sid,<br />
         memusage, last_batch=convert(varchar(26), last_batch,121),<br />
         login_time=convert(varchar(26), login_time,121)<br />
    from master.dbo.sysprocesses<br />
    --where (blocked!=0 or waittype != 0x0000) </code></p>
<p>If you only want to see those that are blocking or locking, uncomment the last line. One thing that’s lacking here is the list of tables and database objects that each process id is using. That’s important if a user is running stored procedures and you need to know . I’ll provide that later as honestly, I don’t know yet which table holds that information.</p>
<p>I actually contributed this at <a href="http://sqlreviewer.com">SQL Reviewer</a> as I don&#8217;t see a lot of websites that discusses this. For further reading, you may go to the MSDN website.</p>
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