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My blog of techy stuff, ranging around SQL (SQL Server, that is), C# and .net, JavaScript and a smattering of stuff about the Orchard CMS (that powers my site) as I get more familiar with it. There's the occasional non-technical post when something is of interest to me that I feel is worth sharing, but they should be few and far between
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Creating an Azure function that triggers when a blob is uploaded
Parts to this series:
Creating an Azure function that triggers when a blob is uploaded (this one)
Creating an Azure function that triggers when a blob is uploaded - Creating and running in Visual …
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Check Azure storage pricing over the period you're going to store the data for
I know this one probably seems obvious, but it didn't really occur to me just how much the "headline" pricing hides the difference in cost between different Azure storage options and models. If you …
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Copying/Moving a file in Azure blob storage
I was looking through the posts on weblogs.asp.net a few days ago and spotted this one, Corrupted File when using DownloadToStream in Azure blob, in which the author does what I do and realises …
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Wouldn't it be nice if the IIS Website bindings window had a default sort
Or, "wouldn't it be nice if the IIS Website bindings window had a default sort that wasn't the order that the bindings were added to the site" to put it another way. I made an oops and created the …
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Excessive whitespace
I was looking through the settings in Firefox earlier today and ended up clicking through to one of the help pages (Firefox's performance settings) which, IMHO, has a bit of excessive whitespace …
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Putting files into Azure blob storage using AzCopy
One of my last blog posts was about copying data into Azure blob storage (specifically local SQL Server backups) and it turns ou that there's a command line app available that wraps up copying files …
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Authenticating Ubiquiti UniFi VPN users against a domain using RADIUS
One of the things that annoyed me about the setup I had when I was using a DrayTek router was that the VPN didn't authenticate using my Active Directory credentials (yes, for reasons, I've got a DC …
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Backing up SQL Server to Azure storage - doing it the long way round
So, as I can't seem to get the baked-in way of backing up to Azure Blob Storage to play ball, I've decided to do it the long way round for now, which isn't the end of the world as it gives me an …
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Backing up SQL Server to Azure storage
I've been looking at using the baked-in backup SQL to Azure blob storage feature to, well, backup some databases and have been thoroughly stumped! :( The SQL I've put together is:
IF EXISTS (SELECT 1 …
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Previewing content in Orchard
This is probably very obvious (and it should be - it's a clickable link in the Orchard UI!), but I had to go off and ask Google if there was a way to preview a blog post I'm writing. It turns out …