Category Archives: Reference

Short references for personal… reference. Basically a howto for the tech-savvy.

Writing a newline to separate commands in XChat

Just learned something neat: In XChat, if you hold ctrl and shift, and then press “u”, followed by “a”, you get a weird character that signifies a line break. This can be used to put several commands on one line in the configuration, or to type several lines before spamming them all at once into […]

MSSQL Mass Copy

To avoid locking a table for a damn long time, this is how Google told me to do mass copies of data in Microsoft SQL Server: DECLARE @BatchSize INT = 1000 DECLARE @IdMax INT = 25179272 DECLARE @i INT = 0 WHILE @i <= @IdMax BEGIN INSERT INTO [mydata].[dbo].[ProjectEventValues] WITH (TABLOCK) ([projectId] ,[descId] ,[index] ,[controllerId] […]

SMPS Repair

I recently had to repair the Switched Mode Power Supply for my RockWheel (a one-wheeled electric “vehicle”). Looking around for some general guidelines, since I hadn’t touched line voltage in a while, I found this guide over here useful. Archived here for archival purposes…

Handler “PageHandlerFactory-Integrated” has a bad module “ManagedPipelineHandler” in its module list

This error seems to pop up every now and again when I configure a new IIS server, even if I do remember to check the ASP option during the initial role selection. Here’s how to resolve it (run as admin) on a 64-bit system: %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -i ..and on a 32-bit system: %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.21006\aspnet_regiis.exe -i

Enabling read_committed_snapshot on an existing MSSQL database

In short, for the database named “internal”: SELECT is_read_committed_snapshot_on,snapshot_isolation_state FROM sys.databases WHERE name=’internal’ ALTER DATABASE [internal] SET allow_snapshot_isolation ON ALTER DATABASE [internal] SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE ALTER DATABASE [internal] SET read_committed_snapshot ON ALTER DATABASE [internal] SET MULTI_USER SELECT is_read_committed_snapshot_on,snapshot_isolation_state FROM sys.databases WHERE name=’internal’

Removing VMware Player or workstation when the Hyper-V role is active

Blatantly stolen from Jussi Palo’s post here, and archived here. All credit to the original author. Challenge Time to go all in with Windows 8 and migrate development environments to Hyper-V. When you’re migrating from VMware to Hyper-V, and you happen to install Hyper-V before uninstalling VMware Workstation or Player, you will get warning that […]