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AHK Countdown Tooltip
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AHK Countdown Tooltip

Someone suggested an app that counts the days I have left serving my notice. I thought I'd go one better and have it calculate to the nearest second. I call this latest app "byeBU" and this is version 0.4 Beta (unofficial app).

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Include a carriage return in a column heading
SQL Server

Include a carriage return in a column heading

A really quick note on how to insert a carriage return or new line into the column name/alias (the header). It might seem trivial but these little aesthetic changes done at the database level can save some time.

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SSIS: How to loop through multiple flat files as data sources
SQL Server Integration Services

SSIS: How to loop through multiple flat files as data sources

This is an article to demonstrate a quick step-by-step on having an SSIS package loop through a directory/folder of files in order to populate a database table. We could add each file as a separate connection manager but this is inefficient and not versatile enough to accommodate files that get added later.

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Convert to Proper Case in T-SQL
Transact-SQL

Convert to Proper Case in T-SQL

So this is an article exploring how to convert UPPERCASE text into mixed case. The feed is originally for a personnel feed so it won't be converting long paragraphs of English text. Instead it will be applied to names and addresses as well as job titles and departments.

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SSIS: Add Reference Microsoft.SqlServer.TxScript
SQL Server Integration Services

SSIS: Add Reference Microsoft.SqlServer.TxScript

This article is so that I don't spend so long in googling what the TxScript referenced assembly is when creating an SSIS custom component. How? This is simply the "Script Component" under "Extensions". No MSDN website said this... obvious to Microsoft staff so why should their documentation include it?

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SSRS Change Background Color of Image
SQL Server Reporting Services

SSRS Change Background Color of Image

Sounds easy but actually if you use an image which has transparent areas, ie. has one color which will be transparent, the transparent pixels will be colored in with the page background color.

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