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Puzzle for the day, why one particular Glyphicon Halflings icon is acting weird
Today’s conundrum, why does one particular Glyphicon Halflings icon display differently between browsers? I have several other icons and they are all correctly displaying black and white. Yet this one...
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Copy Azure SQL Database to local machine (SQL 2008 R2)
You would have thought in these days of point and click a simple task like copying a database from one place to another would be a walk in the park. So when I wanted to take a copy of a SQL database...
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An item with the same key has already been added (SQL Report Services)
I was creating a new report in SQL Reporting Services, I pasted in the SQL query for the report and up popped the message “An item with the same key has already been added”. Turns out I had two...
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How to locate text string in a SQL server object – stored procedure, view or...
Sometimes it’s handy to just conduct a simple search of your SQL server objects to locate a text string. SELECT OBJECT_NAME(object_id) FROM sys.sql_modules WHERE OBJECTPROPERTY(object_id,...
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Parse JSON with TSQL in a SQL Server Stored Procedure
I’m a big fan of JSON as a data exchange format, it’s lightweight, and every API worth playing with is usually JSON-friendly. So in idle curiosity I wondered if it was possible to parse JSON with...
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Git – ignore files starting with period / full stop / dot
I use Git on my Mac, but some repositories are on the Windows drive of my Mac. Mac creates system files in Windows for each of the files, for example default.html will wind up with another file in the...
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Using grunt-prompt with grunt-git
I’ve become a big fan of Grunt in recent months, and now have all my current main projects set up with Grunt for linting, minifying, revving, pushing to Git etc. It means I have a nice smooth build...
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Configure FTPS on IIS7 for SSL file transfers
I’ll presume you already have an SSL certificate installed to your IIS web server and thus have your web site running with https://www.domain.com. This post is about how to enable SSL for your FTP...
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Finally solved the mystery of why isNumeric doesn’t work how you might think
In Classic ASP there is the function isNumeric, which one uses to test if a value is a number. So for example: Response.write IsNumeric("21") // true Response.write IsNumeric("David") // false Seems...
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I started to see errors on our calls to the Xero API, with status 412 returned. The initial clue was in this Xero Community post. On windows 7 machines or older machines, you may need to install a fix...
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