Dealing with the Duplicate Resource: Type 24 when enabling theme support in Delphi 2007
I was writing a little utility in Delphi 2007 to make it easy to work with data stored as the XML data type in SQL Server. While I have been using Delphi 200...
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Identity hijacking on Twitter.
The other day, I got an email from Twitter announcing that someone new is following me.
How to rename database objects to comply with naming conventions
We have guidelines for the naming conventions of our database objects. It’s pretty much the common pattern you see all over the place. For example, we use t...
A more robust way of converting a string to an enumerated value (enum)
A while back, I had blogged about a tip that Mark Wagner had posted about converting a string to an enumerated value. Tim Sneath posted a similar tip even e...
Troubleshooting SQL Server connectivity issues
Xinwei Hong (MSFT) wrote a great troubleshooting guide on how to identify and resolve SQL Server connectivity issues on the SQL Protocols blog.