Archive for December, 2008
In testing in a data warehouse environment, you often need to have large complicated slow tedious scripts to get you back into the exact same state for each test. I was using a large script a colleague of mine made when I noticed a very large part of the script was deleting and creating tables [...]
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Tags: Reset Identity MS SQL Server
outlook search broken
If your Outlook search (or find, instant search, whatever you want to call it) is broken or slow you probably have a corrupt pst file or ost file. You can run scanpst.exe to fix this. My XP box has it located at : C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12
And my .OST and .PST file are located
C:\Documents and Settings\user_id\Local [...]
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C# Ref vs. Out
Let me start by saying that if you have to ask yourself this question, the difference may not matter. Where it really does matter in my opinion, is if any of the following are true:
- You are marshalling an object, especially across the internet in a web service
- You are in a multithreaded performance crucial [...]
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windows host file location
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\etc
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