Dedupe Google Drive with RClone
Trouble with duplicate files in Google Drive? Want to fix a mess? Found the tool to do it!
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NTFS Compression and SQL Server Do Not Play Well Together
accidentally copying a database to a ntfs compressed volume can result in some unpleasant aftertaste. If you get the error The requested operation could not ...
Deleting a Directory That Has a Trailing Space Shouldn’t Be This Hard
Can’t delete a directory due to some edge case in naming errors… like a trailing space. Here’s the fix!
SQL .NET Requirements
SQL Server requirements vary based on the version.
Git Cracking
Git can be an interesting learning curve if you are coming from TFS (Team Foundation Server). However, there are some great things about using Git if you can...
Migration To Jekyll
I’ve been in the process of migrating my site to it’s final home (as far as my inner geek can be satisfied staying with one platform)… Jekyll.
Ultrawide Monitor - Samsung CF971 - First impressions
As a developer, I’ve been a big fan of multiple monitors for a long time. I moved to a triple screen setup years ago, and up until recently, had no desire to...
Fixing VirtualBox Only Showing 32bit Windows OS Options
Original help was identified from this article Why is VirtualBox only showing 32 bit guest versions on my 64 bit host OS?
Exploring SQL Server With Powershell And SMO Basics
SqlServer Powershell Cmdlets 2017 - Initialize Look
Dataedo - First Look
Diagraming and Documentation
ANTS Performance Profiler for the SQL Server Dev
There are a few .NET tools that until recently I haven’t had the chance to work with as much, specifically ANTS Memory Profiler and ANTS Performance Profiler...
Update SSMS With PS1
Installing and Updating SSMS with a simple PowerShell script can be a nice little timesaver…
External Tool VSCODE called from SQL Management Studio
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Best Practices: Defining Explicit Length for Varchar/Nvarchar
SA0080 : Do not use VARCHAR or NVARCHAR data types without specifying length. Level: Warning
Add User To Admin Group on Machine
In setting up some build machines for development, it’s tedious to go and add several users to the admin group. Here’s a snippet to expedite that task and he...
Running InfluxDB as a service in Windows
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Setting Up InfluxDb, Chronograf, and Grafana for the SqlServer Dev
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Automate Windows Updates for Development
I’ve run into the case where I wanted updates continually applied, while the machine still was part of the GPO that didn’t automatically install updates. For...
Programming Fonts For The Newb
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TFS Custom Task - Service Actions (for TFS 2015 Update 2.1 or before)
Apparently, boolean values for custom VSTS tasks for versions prior to TFS 2015 Update 3) require some special handling as they don’t pass the checkbox value...
Life Hack: When you need a mouse pad
My Logitech Master mouse went on the fritz… Requiring me to use my trusty Microsoft mouse. This is an optical based mouse based mouse that started driving me...
Bad Idea Jeans: Query Optimization Through Minification
SQL is pretty verbose compared to some languages. It’s a pretty big disappointment that I have to type out select customer from dbo.customers where id = 2 in...
Dynamically Set Powershell Variables from json
I created this small snippet to allow a list of values from a json file be turned into variables to work with. For working with a fixed list of configuration...
Powershell ISE: Updating Theme
For all the dark theme aficionados, or those who just want a better theme than the default, here’s a quick set of directions to update your ISE.1. Go to down...
Google Search Only Results from the last year
Tech changes quick. Reading google postings from something in 2009 is not my first choice.I found an option after digging through some google discussion post...