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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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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 …
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Replacing our home WiFi with Ubiquiti UniFi
TL;DR: Ubiquiti UniFi is the single best thing we've ever done for our home network / WiFi!
Up until very recently we've been using an ageing DrayTek 2830 series router, along with the modem …
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Disabling the "System Recovery Options" window in Windows
Raymond Chen over at The Old New thing posted yesterday "Why did my systems reboot into the Recovery Environment and how do I prevent that from happening in the future?" where he explains (a) when/ …
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Deserializing awkward JSON using Json.NET
Aside: I'm never quite sure whether every instance of a word which has a Z in it, that sounds like it could have an S in it, should have an S in it when it's en-gb instead of en-us. In this instance …
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When is ALT-D not ALT-D, when it's en-gb :-(
I've been banging my head against the desk for the past week or so as the most recent Windows 10 Insider builds, 16278 if not before, have had the most frustrating (yes, first world problems!) bug. …
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Using structured data to blog recipes
In my other blog I've been writing up recipes for years now, albeit with varying frequency, with a combination of recipes I've found and tweaked and recipes that I've created from scratch (the latter …
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Link Dump
Things I've read recently that I want to keep track off, and perhaps comment on slighty.
PowerShell Tutorial – Try Catch Finally and error handling in PowerShell
I've recently been putting together …
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Compressing directories to ZIP from PowerShell
A quick note to self about compressing folders using PowerShell, basically the trick is to use the ZipFile class from the System.IO.Compression.FileSystem assembly:
$directory = "C:\Path\To\ …