Surface: Standard Onscreen Keyboard

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• New York City .NET

If you feel that the default on-screen keyboard on the Surface RT isn't sufficient, you can enable what I would...

2012-11-19

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SQL in the City - New York 2012

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I was able to attend the SQL in the City event in New York this past Friday.  I highly recommend...

2012-10-01

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PowerShell: Redirecting Console Output and Error Output to a Variable and E-mailing it

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I recently had the need to script the execution of a command-line utility and thought it would be a good...

2012-08-29 (first published: 2012-08-28)

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Fix: Crystal Reports Shows Red X Across Entire Page When Report Run Inside Visual Studio

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I was googling (with Bing AND Google) like crazy for a solution to this, but didn't find one from any...

2012-08-14

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Enabling "Open Project Folder" for project types that don't support it

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One annoying thing about SSIS (2008) and some of the other project types in Visual Studio is the lack of...

2012-07-18

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A Pattern for PIVOT

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Use of the PIVOT operator in T-SQL has always been tantalizing yet confounding to me.  It offers the promise of...

2012-07-08

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Excellent SSIS 2012 Upgrade Video

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This presentation gives an excellent overview of the process of upgrading SQL Server 2008 SSIS packages to work with SQL...

2012-06-24

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Another Way To Insert Many Rows Very Fast From Your .NET Application

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There was a great deal of feedback to my previous post One Way To Insert Many Rows Very Fast From...

2012-05-15

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One Way To Insert Many Rows Very Fast From Your .NET Application

• by nycdotnet

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This is my attempt to explain something that I have wanted to figure out for a long time.  I have...

2012-05-15 (first published: 2012-05-11)

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One Way to Work Around the .NET Setup Project’s Picky Version Number Behavior

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If you don’t change the version number of your .NET project output every time you create a setup package, you...

2012-05-10

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