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
2,855 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
25,161 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
85,839 reads
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
3,300 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
1,155 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
1,151 reads
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
3,387 reads
Blogs
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO
By SQLPals
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO The purpose...
5 SQL Tricks Worth Remembering Before You Close the Laptop
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Claude Context Window
By Arun Sirpal
Every Claude conversation has a context window. It is the total amount of text...
Forums
Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL, A Thank you message
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL,...
provisioning sql server via VMware Cloud Foundation
Hello, has anyone here ever provisioned and actually used an MS SQL Server with...
No More Deadlocks
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Question of the Day
No More Deadlocks
After detecting deadlocks in SQL Server 2025 and lowering the time threshold for detecting future issues, when does the Database Engine return to the 5s default interval?
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