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Fast SQL Server Inserting Data from .NET
Today we needed to insert a large amount (250,000 rows) of automatically generated data into a SQL Server database. Generating the data was very fast, ...
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How Strong is Your Password?
Here’s a rather neat online tool which you can use to measure the strength of your passwords, which is directly related to how long the ...
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Deep Copying an Object in VB.NET
A curious omission in .NET is the ability to make a deep copy of an object which is independent of the original object – i.e. ...
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Converting HTML to PDF in VB.Net with PDFSharp
An interesting little problem we’ve had to implement for a client recently; how to take an HTML (passed through as an email attachment), and convert ...
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SQL Server Queries – Stripping Extra Characters from the End of a String
Yesterday while implementing a particularly difficult SQL report query, I came across the following question: Given a String ‘This is a test, this is a ...
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Security and WordPress Brute Force Password Cracking
There are ongoing botnet attacks on WordPress sites that try to gain access by brute force guessing a username / password to allow login to ...
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