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Development, SQL Server, SSIS

SSIS Custom Task XML Corruption

by: admin2020-12-20

Introduction I usually like to keep any explanation I write to be straight to the point, but informational and no fluff. There are times where […]

ASP.Net, Date and Time, Obscure

ASP.Net Forms Authentication IsAuthenticated is always false

by: admin2020-12-19

Obscure problem You have a web application that uses Forms Authentication The code has been working fine for months if not years because it’s boiler […]

Development, Git

Git stop tracking files

by: admin2020-12-18

Problem You screwed up and you added a bunch of garbage files to your repository and realized it while reviewing your PR (hopefully). This doesn’t […]

Obscure, Windows

Windows 10 KB4532693 profile issue

by: admin2020-09-10

Windows has a strange habit of corrupting your profile at times. This can happen for a number of reasons. In my experience it is usually […]

C#, Development, Gotcha, Obscure

Using absolute paths with FTP

by: admin2020-08-26

Obscure problem Ran into an annoying problem recently where an FTP account I was logging in with had a home directory of something like this: […]

Development, philosophy

Exception error codes

by: admin2020-08-02

A practice I have engaged in for a long time now is adding error codes to any custom or handled exceptions that are thrown on […]

Development, SQL Server

Biases in naming database objects

by: admin2020-08-01

Introduction Over my whole software engineering career, I have watched and learned the right way and the wrong way to style and format code. Especially […]

C#, Development, How to, Obscure

Using Gmail for SMTP access

by: admin2020-07-26

Introduction When you search for this on google you will find one hundred million results that all pretty much say exactly the same thing. The […]

Development, SQL Server

Offline installation of Microsoft Machine Learning server components SQL 2019 is stuck

by: admin2020-04-05

Problem You are installing SQL Server 2019 and you get stuck at the Machine Learning Server Components installation step. Your installer could not download the […]

Development, SQL Server

Enlarging a CHAR column

by: admin2020-03-05

Scenario As usual when you don’t do something for a very long time, it is easy to forget what you knew already. I had to […]

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