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SSIS: Using ASCII control characters anywhere in a SSIS package will break it
I noticed this oddity when I was reading a CSV file using SSIS. Sometimes the source file would have a the ASCII SUB control character in the first column on the last line of the file (see screenshot below):
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SSIS: Lookup Transform not finding expected match with NULL values
If you use the Lookup Transform to perform lookups with columns that can be NULL, the Lookup Transform will fail to find expected matches because in a database world, NULL does not equal NULL.
So how do we make the Lookup Transform match as expected when source column and lookup column can be NULL? We use ISNULL function, partial caching and a custom query in the Lookup Transform.
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SSIS: Solution for Excel data source text truncation of column with more than 255 characters
When using SQL Server Integration Service (SSIS) Excel data source to import text from a column in a spreadsheet, the data source will automatically try to determine the maximum length of text in the text column. It does so by sampling the 9 first rows in the spreadsheet and measuring their length. If it does not find any column longer than 255 characters, it will set the columns type as DT_WSTR with a length of 255, otherwise it will use DT_NTEXT (see Excel Source on TechNet for more details).
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SharePoint 2013: The server was unable to save the form at this time
This morning our freshly installed SharePoint Server 2013 server was refusing to let me save a simple form with a Lookup column to another list. Using the standard insert/edit form, the error message read:
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Extra Tips for Debugging SharePoint Timer Jobs
There is an excellent guide over on MSDN on how to debug a SharePoint timer job from Visual Studio. However, it fails to mention that sometimes you need to restart the service that runs the timer jobs to allow debugger to set a breakpoint. In addition, sometimes a job will not show up in the job definitions list (Central Administration – Job Definitions), making it hard to manually start a job. The solution to this is to recycle IIS.
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SharePoint Foundation 2010 on Windows 7/8 – missing config.xml file
To install SharePoint Foundation 2010 on Windows 7/8, you need to modify the config.xml file. However, after extracting the setup files, the config.xml file was nowhere to be seen in the Setup folder. To get the installation going, I had to create the file myself. Here is the content that goes into it:
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JSLink: The simple way to add and load multiple JavaScript files
It can sometimes be useful to specify multiple JavaScript files to use when rendering e.g. a field in SharePoint 2013. It could be that you have a JavaScript file with some shared code that you use in all your custom rendering, or you use a library such as jQuery. In either case, you need all the scripts loaded before you can start rendering.
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How to add an Enterprise Keywords column to a custom list and enable Keyword synchronization in SharePoint 2013
This is a quick step-by-step guide to add an Enterprise Keywords column to a custom list and enable Keyword synchronization with Visual Studio 2012 in a SharePoint project. The SharePoint tools for Visual Studio 2012 have become a lot better in the latest edition, but a little extra work is required to get the Enterprise keywords column wired up correctly.
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Nokia, please turn my f…ing volume back up again!
With the Windows Phone 7.8 update to my Nokia Lumia 800, Nokia suddenly decided that my hearing is precious and I am not able to take care of it myself… the volume is now capped at half of what it was before.
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Quick and simple Drupal upgrade using FTP only
Running Drupal on a shared host usually imply you only have access to the webserver through FTP, i.e. no Drush or SSH to ease the upgrade process. The official upgrade instructions assumes you have shell access to your server.