Back from vacation
After a couple of weeks of vacation, I came back to the office to find my old development book DOA. It was worse than a Blue Screen, it was a black screen w...
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Dates are not numbers
One of the other developers that I work with had a question about inserting some date values into a SQL Server database. The code in question is doing a bat...
Hidden gotcha in FreeAndNil()
Time to go memory leak hunting in my service. I’m using AutomatedQA‘s AQTime 4, a really cool tool. I’ve used it’s profiling features in the past, but not th...
Poor man’s guide to memory usage tracking
I have a service and I need to make sure that it doesn’t have a memory leak after running for a sustained length of time. I’m doing all the good stuff in co...
SQL Server WHERE clause tip (not needed for SQL Server 2005)
One of my services logs every request to a private log table. That table mainly a diagnostic tool to provide some crude performance benchmarks. It’s not desi...