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Thursday, October 8, 2020

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 18.x won't save server passwords

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Starting around SSMS 18.x, Microsoft changed the way credentials were stored. This caused any saved passwords from previous versions to stop...
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Friday, October 2, 2020

Force Windows to use all available cores to process NGen queue

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If it seems like mscorsvw.exe is running forever, you can use this script from the official .NET github repo to force ngen to process the q...
Monday, September 21, 2020

Copy & Paste does not work in Firefox on Google Docs

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Firefox blocks certain clipboard events by default. This breaks some Google Docs functionality. To reenable it, go to about:config and set ...
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Prevent Gentoo Portage from unmerging kernel sources during a world upgrade

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Portage typically unmerges all but the newest kernel sources, while I'd prefer to leave the sources to the running kernel and backup ker...

Determining the manufacturer and recording medium of a blank CD or DVD

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Every recordable CD and DVD actually has a little bit of data on the blank disc. On CDs this is called the ATIP (Absolute Time in Pregroove)...

SQL: Get just the date part of a DATETIME on SQL Server 2005

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In Microsoft SQL Server 2008+ there is a DATE type, and getting just the date portion of a DATETIME is as easy as a cast or convert to DATE....

Easily straighten a crooked scan or photo in GIMP

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To easily straighten a crooked scan or photo in GIMP, don't bother with manual rotation and rulers. Just use the Measure tool (Shift-M) ...
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Determining where a CD or DVD was manufactured

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On factory-pressed CDs (and some DVDs), on the shiny side of the disc near the center spindle ring there is usually text, known as the matr...

SQL: TRY_CAST alternative for old versions of SQL Server

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In modern versions of Microsoft SQL Server there is a TRY_CAST function which returns NULL if the type cast fails, and returns the converted...

SQL: Replace repeated spaces with a single space

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In SQL dialects that provide a REPLACE function you can replace instances of repeated spaces with a single space (you may replace CHAR(7) wi...

Rosetta Code

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Rosetta Code is a programming chrestomathy site. The idea is to present solutions to the same task in as many different languages as possib...