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  You try to install latest Windows SDK and it does not work. If you look at the setup log file...

Date: 06/27/2012

Windows Azure Diagnostics does not work, you see following in the Compute Emulator =>...

Date: 06/27/2012

If you are using the SQL Native Client ODBC driver, there is built-in high performance very detailed...

Date: 05/15/2012

  Ahh PowerShell, I still cannot fully embrace your powerful weirdness. With normal NT command...

Date: 04/28/2012

I’m debugging using the Debugging Tools For Windows (WinDbg).  Debugging a native C++ process...

Date: 04/26/2012

  When setting up read-only routing for SQL Server AlwaysOn, you have to configure each...

Date: 04/25/2012

In a recent MSDN forum post Connection Pooling randomly throwing COM exceptions I uncovered an issue...

Date: 09/08/2009

Yes.

Date: 02/11/2009

First get dumpbin tool, ships with any Windows SDK. Run dumpbin /headers on the binary, then look at...

Date: 11/25/2008

Just a note to self, when typing in TrustedInstaller into security dialogs in Vista/Windows 2008, be...

Date: 10/07/2008

Ok, file this one under debugger trivia.  If you are debugging a 32-bit CLR process from a...

Date: 10/06/2008

Just helping out the next person, this code took me all day to cobble together. Key tricky part was...

Date: 09/23/2008

Just some notes from recent discussions internal and external of how timeouts work with...

Date: 08/29/2008

Even though I've been working on the SQL Server protocol layer for the past 3 years I still have...

Date: 08/27/2008

In case you have not heard the buzz, we have this new thing called Live Mesh that is pretty...

Date: 06/04/2008

If you have pooling issues with ADO.NET (leaking connections, pool size exceeded, etc...) one way to...

Date: 05/08/2008

I'm trying to write some CLR sprocs to test out the TDS behavior of CLR sprocs versus T-SQL sprocs...

Date: 04/22/2008

Over the years, I find more and more of the Windows UI is designed to hide things like where the...

Date: 04/15/2008

Don't know about you, but some days I'm so busy I don't have time to wait while VS.NET spawns...

Date: 03/28/2008

Found an interesting bit of code on the newsgroups the other day .... what I like to call MacGruber...

Date: 03/26/2008

Here is a nice easy way to debug SSL issue with Windows 2003 that I discovered while working on SOAP...

Date: 03/13/2006

Note to self: Things to remember to check next time I can't connect to SQL... 1. Is SQL started?...

Date: 02/25/2006

Hello world, I am working late on the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver. Very fun job, but the...

Date: 10/14/2005