Salman Quazi

SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) is the replacement for DTS in SQL 2005.

When you are using the Script Task in SSIS it’s often useful to have the script task return data, and also at times useful to have access to external data.

A question came up the other day while I was helping a friend of mine about recursively reversing a singly linked list.

I manage a good portion of legacy code, written by so called consultants, and I can’t believe how many places I have seen code like this: bool flag; if(x==y) { flag=true; } else { flag=false; } Or a variation of this bool flag=false; if(x==y) { fla…

ASP.NET 2.0 introduced a new way of modifying how ASP.NET renders a control.

Summary: Learn about automatic printing in a Windows platform using WScript.

In SQL server if you want to reference a table using four-part naming convention and you receive the error message: Server ‘xxxx’ is not configured for DATA ACCESS.

In Windows XP pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL twice in the login screen will take you to the classic login screen where you can manually type in the username and password to authenticate yourself.

The company I work for reliies heavily on active-directory to organize, authenticate and integrate.

If you want to search text files in your computer for a specific string you can do this easily using the following code: for /f "tokens=*" %i IN ('dir /s /b *.asp') DO find /I "depthomepages" %i >> output.txt You can replace dir /s /b *.asp to something…

Oracle database supports a very strange construct called: start with, and connect by.

To get a typed Array of type int [] from an ArrayList you can do the following: (int [])TestArray.ToArray(typeof(int)); First the ToArray() function accepts a System.Type argument which is what it uses to convert the Array to type int.

Microsoft ISA (Internet Security and Acceleration Server) 2004 is a tool to secure and accelerate (as the name suggests) networks running on Windows platforms.

Recursive functions can be a lot of fun!

Out of several enchancements available in .NET 2.0 partial classes is one of them.

XMLHttp is the future of web application development.

Sometimes a simple change as adding a slash may improve the performance of your web-applications.

About three years ago I worked on an application that in-part had to blend in with several other applications.

You can use this simple command to find the MySQL version you are running: select Version() as Version; Hope that helps.

In .NET an interesting phehomenon occurs known as “boxing”.

Uncertainty Principal is a principle of quantum mechanics postulated by Nobel laureate Werner Heisenberg in the 1920s which states that it is not possible to determine both the position and the momentum of a particle at the same instant.

Let’s say you have an HTML form which posts to another page, and that page in turn posts to other page(s) (maybe even to itself).

Not many people know about this.

You will notice in windows no matter how you want to “Run as” explorer.exe it will not work.

All developers are aware how programming errors such as logic error, exception error or incorrect input data can produce bugs.

Optimizing regular expressions is an exceptionally complex field.

Unlike FireFox, Internet Explorer does not display a table until the complete table data has arrived.

I was working on a project last week and part of the work was to create sort of like a template / menu / footer with an opening image.

Inspired by Macintosh Panther logo, I designed this logo.

So far I have discussed the following topics: Introduction to our intelligent Roomba Vacuum cleaner.

As part of a continuing effort to build more functional and user-friendly products I am working on an ASP-based vCalendar concept.

I was working on a new design for something at work and I came up with this header layout.

As I was discussing I am working on an intelligent vacuum cleaner.

For the past few weeks me and a team of three extremely bright computer science graduate students have been working on a vacuum cleaner.

ORDBMS - Object Relational, Database Management system.

As I discussed last week setInterval in general gives better performance compared to setTimeout.

This is the first in a series of articles I plan to write on improving performance in JavaScript heavy web-applications.

How I came to this is not relevant I think, so I will jump straight to the examples.

In my previous post I discussed an algorithm that it is much better than the general line following algorithm that one might think of at first.

I have a project due in few weeks.

Generating dynamic contents can be a great way to allow your users to find information quickly.

It was sort of surprising to find out that XSLT does not have any predefined date formatting function.

In Linux just do this: gpg --keyserver "ldap://certserver.pgp.com" --search-keys "<e-mail address>" Note the option: –keyserver can be other Keyservers like the MIT Key Server (pgp.mit.edu).

Just before I go to bed I thought I make an interesting post.

How do you make certain JavaScript sequentially preloads your images?

The other day I was working on something in JavaScript and I thought I would share that with you.

Interesting semester coming up for me.

I have a test tonight.

At work I have this XML document that lists all the employees along with their responsiblities.

A computer science/mathematics student learns various ways of measuring complexity of a problem.