Forgive my brevity on this post but I am writing to you today from my cell phone. You may run into the problem I just had and I wanted to let you know what the issue was and how I solved it. Suppose you have the following code: DECLARE @decimalValue1 decimal = 5 DECLARE @decimalValue2 [...]

This is amazing. Microsoft has made the inner workings of their IL compiler open to everyone by exposing the inner workings through an API. As the Overview describes, they’ve rewritten the IL compiler in managed code and in doing so have un-boxed the black box that was once the best IL compiler for Windows. It [...]

The top results in a general search through Google for keywords in the title of this post will return results which will not work with SQL server. Some suggest using the ALTER tablename MODIFY column syntax for which SQL Server does not support MODIFY. In order to change the size of a varchar column (or [...]

In usual fashion I sat down the other day and tried to come up with a useful tool I could quickly code. After about a week of coding and testing I’ve come up with a simple command line tool that will retrieve and display both v4 and v6 IP address information for one or more [...]