Steve Jobs One Last Thing 02 November 2012 Guus-Beltman Recently I watched this great documentary about Steve Jobs: One Last Thing. Great to see his story from different angles. He sure did change the world for many people. You can view the one hour documentary free on Youtube or directly here: Have fun watching this video,
How to change database primary key field with a foreign key constraint 02 July 2012 Guus-Beltman SQL Today I needed to increase a varchar database from 2 position to 50 positions. At first I thought this would be easy, just make a change script like this: 1: ALTER TABLE tb_Categories ALTER COLUMN Code varchar(50) not null After running in SSMS I got two error messages back: Msg 5074, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 The object 'FK_CategoryCode' is dependent on column 'Code'. Msg 4922, Level 16, State 9, Line 1 ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN Code failed because one or more objects access this column. Oops.. The Code field is used as a primary key here and ref... [More]
Windows 8 keyboard combinations 28 May 2012 Guus-Beltman Software The new version of Windows has some new keyboard combinations for the new features. Of course there are a lot of sites that have complete downloadable cheat sheets for these kind of things. I just create a simple list to start with to keep the learning curve acceptable New key combinations for Windows 8 WinKey = Start screen or previously opened application WinKey + C = Open charms WinKey +. = Moves opened application to left or right side WinKey + Tab = Open application overview on the LHS WinKey + Q = Search application WinKey + X = Start screen power menu WinKey + W = Searc... [More]
Installing Windows 8 CP with Virtual Box 28 May 2012 Guus-Beltman Software Today I took some time to install Windows 8 Consumer Preview and run it within Virtual Box. During installation I wrote down some notes of what I encountered during setup. Here is my simplified list of steps to achieve a working Windows 8. You can download the Win8 Consumer Preview from the Microsoft site as a ISO image. 1. Install Virtual Box + Extension Pack. 2. Create new virtual machine with OS Windows 8. 3. Choose 2048 MB internal memory for 64 bit version (You can use 1024 for 32 bit). 4. Create Virtual Disk Image with dynamically allocated setting & 20 GB HDD space. 5.... [More]
Easy way to clear your SQL server database 18 May 2012 Guus-Beltman SQL Sometimes you want to make a clean start with your SQL server database since it’s filled up with old demo data. We all now that you can delete or truncate your tables easily by executing some T-SQL statements. When you only have a couple of tables and no complex foreign key dependencies you can do it by hand. When you database is larger and for more complex it can be a time consuming task and it’s different for each database schema. The following script makes it really easy (beware: select the correct database!). 1: -----------------------------------------------------------... [More]