SkyDrive photos in Flipboard

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Flipboard is a great app for the iPad. It displays a collections of RSS feeds as a magazine. The latest version (1.1.1) offers the ability t...

Combine two DVD's into one

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When you want to combine two DVD's onto one disc, but keep the chapters, then try the following steps. I assume the video_ts folders of...

Use 32-bits Excel Source with 64-bits SSIS

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The following is still work in progress and more of a braindump than anything else, but I've put it here, because someone might already ...

Increase maximum volume of the iPad

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If you find that the maximum volume on the iPad is not loud enough, then you can fix that with the following adjustment: Start Cydia If yo...
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Internet on iPad via adhoc wifi hotspot

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Scroll down for the solution, read on for some trial-and-error background info. When no direct wifi internet connection is available, then...

Bluetooth device not found on Dell laptop

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If you are sure you have a built-in bluetooth device on your Dell laptop, but you cannot find it in control panel or device manager, then tr...
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CTAS disregards number precision and scale

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When using a "create table as select" (CTAS) to create a table based on a query, when that query also contains a window function/a...

Subtitle Workshop blank screen with Matroska/MKV containing H.264

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Scroll down to solution for the workaround to get video in stead of a black screen. Read on for a little bit more background information. ...
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TNS service names ODBC dropdown box garbled, messed up, gibberish

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Most likely cause is that there are two or more different Oracle clients installed, with two or more home folders and tnsnames.ora files. ...
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CDBurnerXP: drive not recognized

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CDBurnerXP is a freeware tool for burning CD's and DVD's, including blueray. However, it sometimes does not recognize the drive to b...

The nearby-future of storage

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The ioDrive Duo by FusionIO out-performs even multiple SSD's placed in parallel. The 320GB version of the ioDrive has a read/write speed...

SQL Server statistics

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Statistics are information about the distribution of data in a column, maintained internally by the database engine. Rules and behaviour w...

Set cscript as default script engine

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To set cscript as the default scripting engine on the system: cscript //h:cscript //s This way, the "wscript.echo" method always ...
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Derived table vs subquery

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There are several ways to combine datasets: Subquery: SELECT clause, correlation Join (cross/left/right/inner/full): FROM clause, no corre...

SQL Developer thick/OCI driver

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The following error messages may appear when using SQL Developer to select data from a SQL Server table via a (heterogeneous or DG4ODBC) dat...

Oracle JDBC connections

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The following JDBC drivers exist for Oracle: classes111.jar: Java 1.1 classes12.jar: 1.2 and 1.3 ojdbc14.jar: 1.4 and 1.5 (no JDBC3 and ...

Databases

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Row-oriented: Oracle DB SQL Server SQL Server CE MySql: InnoDB Sybase Advantage Database Server (ADS) MS Access Column-oriented: Ex...

No login prompt for website

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Suppose you want to login with Internet Explorer to an intranet website, that uses Windows Authentication as the authentication mechanism. W...
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Run SSMS using different Windows account

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You can log on to a SQL Server database using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) with a Windows Authentication login / NT account / Windows...

Change column position

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In Oracle, it is not straightforward to change the position of a column. Let alone one that contains data. Without resolving to manually c...