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January 2006 - Posts

• Registering Notification Services service

  While trying to register the Notification Services Windows Service I ran into the following error message: =================================== Required information could not be retrieved from the registry. This usually indicates a problem with setup, Read More... Posted Thursday, January 19, 2006 11:15 PM by Jason | 2 Comments Filed under: SQL NS

• Collect the Fource

  I tend to get into geeky things and geeky free things that end up teaching me things are even better... Collect the Fource Here's the deal. If you don't sign up for MSDN® Webcasts and Virtual Labs this very minute, the world stands a very real, or at Read More... Posted Friday, January 06, 2006 10:12 PM by Jason | (Comments Off)

• Cropping Tool

  If you are ever looking for a quick cut-n-paste tool; check out Cropper in C# . I've used it quite a bit in documentation, reporting errors, delivering snapshots of query results, and for a multitude of other uses. From the site: Cropper is a screen capture Read More... Posted Thursday, January 05, 2006 2:22 PM by Jason | (Comments Off)

• Data Reset Trick

  Occassionally I get started developing SQL queries where I need to keep the data the same throughout each execution of the SQL statements. To accomplish this, I will usually setup a rolledback transaction loop before the SQL statement. With this loop, Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 04, 2006 11:13 AM by Jason | (Comments Off)