Monthly Archives: June 2004

Mastering T-SQL subtleties the hard way

June 30, 2004 – 10:36 pm

Every once in a while, I think I know exactly what the code that I’m writing is doing, and then I discover, often through some catastrophe, that I didn’t quite understand all the details.  One particularly instructive (or would that be destructive?) example that comes to mind is a T-SQL mistake that ended up deleting every [...]

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Stupid Remote Desktop tricks

June 27, 2004 – 4:25 pm

Stupid Remote Desktop trick #1 Connect to a remote machine using Remote Desktop. In device manager, right-click on your network card and choose “Disable“. Kick yourself for being so stupid, go to the machine’s console (hopefully it’s within walking distance), and re-enable your network card. Stupid Remote Desktop trick #2 Connect to a remote machine [...]

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The Case of the Disappearing Taskbar Notification Icons

June 25, 2004 – 12:01 pm

Let’s begin with a simple experiment that you can perform on your own computer: Count the number of icons in your Taskbar Notification Area, including any rarely used icons that Windows XP may have hidden under the little blue less-than button. The Taskbar Notification Area is that part of your Windows taskbar near the clock where [...]

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Wanted: tribal knowledge

June 16, 2004 – 10:30 pm

Tribal Librarian? What on earth does that mean?! To understand where I got such a strange name for my blog, we first need to understand “tribal knowledge”. iSixSigma.com defines tribal knowledge as “any unwritten information that is not commonly known by others within a company” [1]. For our purposes here, I’m using it slightly more [...]

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