Working with identity column seed & increment values

All of the following samples are based on the following table:

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Oct 28th, 2009, 11:46 AM | Posted in SQL Server | No comments »

Solving access denied errors using Process Monitor

Access denied errors are not uncommon when deploying new websites / features that interact with the filesystem. While it might work in local testing, it suddenly doesn't anymore when deployed. Using Process Monitor I'll show how to easily debug these issues.

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Oct 21st, 2009, 10:56 AM | Posted in .NET, IIS 7, Security, Server 2003, Software | 2 comments »

How to do URL rewriting on IIS 7 properly

One of my earlier blog posts, and the all time most popular one, was about how to make URL rewriting on IIS 7 work like IIS 6. While my method did provide a means to the goal, it's humiliatingly far from what I should've done. Since the old post is still the most visited post on my blog I feel obligated to write a followup on how to do proper url rewriting in IIS 7.

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Oct 14th, 2009, 12:14 PM | Posted in .NET, IIS 7 | 5 comments »

Simple file synchronization using robocopy

On numerous occations I've had a need for synchronizing directories of files & subdirectories. I've used it for synchronizing work files from my stationary PC to my laptop in the pre-always-on era (today I use SVN for almost all files that needs to be in synch). Recently I needed to implement a very KISS backup solution that simply synchronized two directories once a week for offsite storing of the backup data.

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Oct 7th, 2009, 1:35 PM | Posted in Server 2003, Software | No comments »