January 2006 - Posts

• Alternative to <td nowrap>

  This may seem trivial but interesting. In the world of compliance with XHTML 1.0 the best approach I have found to the nowrap attribute is in CSS white-space attribute, examples ... <td style="white-space: nowrap;"> <a style="white-space: nowrap;"> Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 18, 2006 2:50 PM by mab | 7 Comments

• SQL Server Startup Issue related to TDSSNIClient error 0x7e status 0x60

  Just thought I would jot down some interesting information I ran across while trying troubleshoot securing down SQL Server 2005. Symptoms: TDSSNIClient initialization failed with error 0x7e, status code 0x60. TDSSNIClient initialization failed with error Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 18, 2006 1:31 PM by mab | 11 Comments

• Drag and Drop between Outlook Attachments and Sharepoint Document Library

  Did you know that you can drag your Outlook file attachment directly into Sharepoint? It is straightforward with a few exceptions. Here are the steps: Open your SharePoint site Select the Document Library to store the file Select the "Explorer View" of Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 17, 2006 5:59 PM by mab | 2 Comments

• How to update SQL TEXT or NTEXT from VARCHAR or NVARCHAR in SQL 2005

  With SQL Server 2005 a new concept was introduced ... varchar(MAX) and nvarchar(MAX). This allows the rich features of varchar functions without the practical limits from previous SQL versions. I ran across this when I was trying to secure fields in a Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 17, 2006 5:45 PM by mab | 0 Comments