SSIS loop and container continue on error
Obscure and not straight forward This is one of those things I can never remember because it doesn’t come up that often. This is usually only a case where you are trying to introduce fault toler...
LinqPad quick reference
This is a quick post for my own ignorance. On occasion I use LinqPad to make changes in a database and I find the stock LinqPad linq to sql provider to be very useful. I just happen to forget the synt...
Visual Studio 2017 SSIS unable to start debugging
Microsoft’s handling of SSDT isn’t good I have criticized Microsoft about this before here – and I am going to continue to wag my finger at them. It’s getting better, but still...
Pivoting data without an aggregation column
Don’t use PIVOT for non-aggregate-able data I ran into a rather displeasurable experience where a separate team of people built some very important tools for us and they did a lackluster job and...
Could not load file or assembly System.Web.WebPages.Deployment
I encountered this problem when moving from an old machine to a new machine. I vaguely recall having this problem once before, but it was such a long time ago I just don’t remember. However I en...
Dot net core NUnit unit test won’t start
I was hoping this problem would resolve itself, but it hasn’t so I am writing about it to document it to refer to in the future. I ran into this problem twice now and it annoys me because it sho...
Cannot ping or RDP to Windows 10 machine
Problem This is a particularly stupid gotcha. For a long time now I haven’t been able to RDP into my Windows 10 Surface Pro 4. I tried everything I could think of or look up including but not li...
Padding a string in tSQL
Gotcha There isn’t a Pad Left or Pad Right function in tSQL. Solution There is a lengthy discussion about this topic already on Stack Overflow here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16760900...