https://ta.speot.is ta.speot.is en https://ta.speot.is/posts/toshiba-be03-32gb-usb-3-0-benchmark https://ta.speot.is/posts/toshiba-be03-32gb-usb-3-0-benchmark Tue, 26 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMT I looked online for a benchmark for one of these drives before buying it but came up empty. Here’s CrystalDiskMark after running it with default settings. The drive is connected via USB 3. Its part number is PA5307A-1MCL and out of the box… https://ta.speot.is/posts/use-subqueries-to-count-distinct-0x-faster https://ta.speot.is/posts/use-subqueries-to-count-distinct-0x-faster Sat, 25 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT NB: This post is in response to Use Subqueries to Count Distinct 50X Faster and my comment on Hacker News. On Periscope’s The High-Performance SQL Blog there is an article that shows how to improve the performance of COUNT(DISTINCT…. It… https://ta.speot.is/posts/generatebootstrappertask-and-the-visual-studio-2010-command-prompt https://ta.speot.is/posts/generatebootstrappertask-and-the-visual-studio-2010-command-prompt Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT If you’re using MSBuild and want to generate a bootstrapper for your application you might be drawn to this example on MSDN. It looks straightforward enough, and I’ve reproduced it below with a few changes (to install a later version of… https://ta.speot.is/posts/dynamic-odbc-rdo-connection-strings-in-crystal-reports https://ta.speot.is/posts/dynamic-odbc-rdo-connection-strings-in-crystal-reports Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT Apparently changing the connection string of an ODBC (RDO) connection in Crystal Reports dynamically (at runtime) is hard to do. I had a crack at it and this is what I came up with: This function imitates the ConnectionInfo object that I… https://ta.speot.is/posts/visual-studio-2010-sp1-windows-sdk-7-1-install-order https://ta.speot.is/posts/visual-studio-2010-sp1-windows-sdk-7-1-install-order Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT Thanks to an issue between Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and the Windows SDK 7.1 installing and fully patching Visual Studio 2010 became a little bit more complicated and time consuming. Not only is there a special installation order you should… https://ta.speot.is/posts/disabling-wcfs-explicit-element-ordering https://ta.speot.is/posts/disabling-wcfs-explicit-element-ordering Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT If you consume a SOAP web service via WCF, and the service doesn’t return its XML elements in the order specified by its WSDL, you may experience “mysterious null values” in the deserialized response. This is because WCF enforces element… https://ta.speot.is/posts/the-database-engine-could-not-lock-table-because-it-is-already-in-use-by-another-person-or-process-error-in-jet https://ta.speot.is/posts/the-database-engine-could-not-lock-table-because-it-is-already-in-use-by-another-person-or-process-error-in-jet Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT When performing DML and DDL queries against an Access database you may encounter something similar to the following: The database engine could not lock table ‘Orders’ because it is already in use by another person or process. The error… https://ta.speot.is/posts/operation-must-use-an-updateable-query-error-in-jet https://ta.speot.is/posts/operation-must-use-an-updateable-query-error-in-jet Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT When performing update queries against a Microsoft JET database, you may come across the following error: Operation must use an updateable query The Microsoft Knowledge Base has an article for the most obvious cause of this error, that the… https://ta.speot.is/posts/add-web-reference-in-visual-studio-2008 https://ta.speot.is/posts/add-web-reference-in-visual-studio-2008 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT Visual Studio 2005 and earlier editions provide excellent support for consuming SOAP web services in any Visual Studio language. Unfortunately, later versions have removed some of this functionality for C++ projects, placing more burden on… https://ta.speot.is/posts/error-155005-in-xcode-3 https://ta.speot.is/posts/error-155005-in-xcode-3 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT When using Xcode with source code control you may encounter this following message when committing your project: Error: 155005 (Working copy not locked; this is probably a bug, please report) In my instance this was caused by placing the…