Tuesday, April 1, 2025

SQL Server: T-SQL Adding a CreatedUtc and ModifiedUtc to a Database Table

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As a 120 WPM typist (you read that right), ChatGPT or its cousins are a time-saver. I know the drill of adding a column or columns to an exi...
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

PowerShell: Create a git branch for an issue (type, number and title)

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 On a project the branches used take the following form where issues are of type Bug, Task, etc: <issue type>/<user name>/<is...

Git: Merging a branch and Prioritizing Current Branch

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In a local git repo, I was working on a branch. I had to merge with main. During the merge I wanted the changes made in my branch to be prio...
Thursday, August 1, 2024

Windows 11: Remove Microsoft News Widget

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I will not make negative comments in my blog. Here is the command to uninstall the Microsoft News widget on Windows 11: winget uninstall Mic...
Sunday, July 28, 2024

Git: get remote URL of local Git Repo

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From a console window where the current folder corresponds to a local git repo, run the following from a console: git remote -v An example o...
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

PowerShell: Folder Diff

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With a new git repo, I after push the source code and then re-pull to a new local repo. To verify the .gitignore is correct, I diff the orig...
Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Visual Studio Code: Error Generation Bicep Template from Existing Azure Resource

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The latest version of Microsoft's Bicep Extension (v0.26.54) for Visual Studio Code has a new behavior that causes an error message to b...