How To: Cause a Vista BSOD with VS 2008

Just in case you want to do this, here's a step by step guide. Start VS 2008 (no need to open a project or file) Click on Tool->Attach to Process... Select wininit.exe and click Attach Wait for the debugger to initialize Click the Stop Debugging button When you attempt to... [Read More]

Using ROW_NUMBER() to merge data

I just tackled a problem using SQL's ROW_NUMBER() function, and I'm happy with how it turned out.  It would have been pretty tricky in SQL 2000. The problem at hand was merging 2 sets of data, copying data from one account into another account, where the records don't already exist. ... [Read More]