Getting Started with the Modern.ie VMs on VirtualBox with IIS Express
Microsoft has made pre-packaged Virtual Machine images available for purposes of testing different versions of IE via the modern.ie web...
2014-05-22
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From Zero to Pull Request with Git on Windows
I wrote a guide about using Git and GitHub for "Windows people".
This is the guide I wish was available when...
2014-04-22 (first published: 2014-04-16)
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Rounding versus truncating
Be careful when implicitly converting data types in T-SQL. Directly assigning 1.5 (either as a FLOAT or a NUMERIC) to...
2014-04-15
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Query to Find "Update" Dependencies on a Table or View (SQL Server 2012)
The built-in dependency finder in SQL Server Management Studio does not provide the ability to distinguish between dependencies that are...
2013-07-23
2,781 reads
How To Make Your DLL Into A NuGet Package for a Private NuGet Feed
This is my reinterpretation of the documentation on NuGet.org, modified to remove the public publishing steps, and to add local...
2013-06-05
22,924 reads
Performing an INSERT from a PowerShell script
This code demonstrates how to do an INSERT into SQL Server from a PowerShell script using an ADO.NET command object...
2013-05-24
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Setting up an Internal Friendly URL
Note: This solution is not necessarily the best or most efficient solution in all cases. It is, however, very simple...
2013-02-27
3,127 reads
Using SkyDrive at Work for Collaboration - A Quick Start Guide
It seems that many of my projects in the past year or so have required sharing files with external business...
2013-02-06
1,135 reads
Using Inline “With” Blocks to Augment a VB.NET Default Constructor
Say you have a simple data transfer class that looks like this:
Public Class Employee
Public Property Name As String
Public...
2013-02-02
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IIS Express Quickie Command-line
This is a reminder to my future self for how to quickly start IIS Express from the command-line on 64-bit...
2012-11-24
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Blogs
Learn some critical SQL Security with the MidnightDBAs (Thursday, Jan 20)
By Jen McCown
Friends, the MidnightDBAs have a plan for 2022. A capital-P Plan. And it involves...
CosmosDB and Consistency
By Steve Jones
I was doing a little work with CosmosDB recently, and there were a few...
Daily Coping 17 Jan 2022
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
Forums
Linked Server UPDATE & DELETE fails . But INSERT & SELECTs work fine
Hello, I have a Windows 2019 machine. I have SQL Server 2016 and the...
Extended Events - how can I query the location of File Target of an XE Session?
If I know the XE Session name, is there a query to find out...
tricky query with patterns of consecutive rows
Hi! I'm having struggle with selecting rows, that match "dynamic" rules as described: if...
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