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Add a FILESTREAM feature to an existing SQL D/B

2026-01-10 Udar Gromov 1

SQL Server 2008 allows to store binary data, if Database has a FILESTREAM feature

Process **\MCSHIELD.EXE contains signed but untrusted code …

2026-01-06 Udar Gromov 0

This fix was tested with Windows XP Pro SP3 with Office 2003 SP3 and McAfee AntiVirus Plus. Finally. Finally I found a solution for this really scary-looking error message that was bugging me since 12/24. Marry Christmas! Description of a Problem Every time you restart you PC you see a […]

Three ways to get SQL table field structure

2026-01-02 Udar Gromov 1

Sometimes you need to display or print a SQL table structure. This article provides a SQL statement that allows you to do that. We are using MS SQL 2008 Studio interface.

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How to Reset Win XP Admin Password

2025-12-22 Udar Gromov 0

There are two ways to reset forgotten Administrator password. Method one – Reset During Repair Reinstall: Use Win XP installation disk Run Recovery (not Recovery Console) Press Shift+F10 during GIU portion of repair / install Run LUSRMGR.MSC to reset any user password to whatever you want During my tests, this […]

Update Field Based on a Field in Another Table

2025-12-13 Udar Gromov 1

This article contains 3 examples: – T-SQL; – MS Access; – AS/400. This example shows a standard T-SQL syntax tested on MS SQL 2005 server: update P set P.CertMemberLevelID = Z.CertLevelTo from UPM_MemberPermissionMask P INNER JOIN zzzCertRegistryUpdate Z ON P.MemberID = Z. Cert2ID Here we are updating one […]

Read Registry value into a batch variable

2025-12-10 Udar Gromov 4

Before I forget, let me share with you a fantastic way to read values from Registry into a batch file variable. Say you need to determine, what is the date format of this machine. Normally you would read a value from HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International like this: REG QUERY “HKCU\Control Panel\International” /v […]

Resolved: The system cannot find message text for message number (0x2350)…

2025-12-09 Udar Gromov 11

Problem This article will show you how to resolve error 0x2350 or 0x2331 after you renamed cmd.exe or any other application file in System32 folder. What a pleasure to resolve a long standing problem. And not by an accident. No. But by applying a heavy-duty problem-solving pressure tactic. This is gold, Jerry, gold! […]

Can’t convert Number into a string in Excel (not all space characters are the same)

2025-12-07 Udar Gromov 0

Problem started as a simple CAN’T CONVERT NUMBER INTO A STRING in Excel. But solving this problem revealed a deep difference between character Space and character No-Break Space. I was copying some text from Internet and pasting it into Excel to extract QTY, Amount and Total. The ultimate goal is […]

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Save and Restore Registry Security with Microsoft SubInACL

2025-12-06 Udar Gromov 11

Problem You need to search and replace large registry databases with a set of new values. You have a third-party utility to do the job, but this utility can only update values writable by administrator. Thousands of registry keys are owned by NT Service\TrustedInstaller and protected even for Administrators. What […]

How to Compare SQL SmallDateTime Fields for Equality

2025-11-30 Udar Gromov 1

It is meaningless to compare for equality (==) two fields of type SmallDateTime, because they contain time component and they are hardly ever the same. Here are some interesting ways around this problem to check, if two SmallDateTime fields have the same date component.

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Stuck in MSCONFIG Diagnostic startup? – Steps to fix

2025-11-23 Udar Gromov 1

XPS12 is back online. I experienced a mini-crisis of my own creation. My 3-year old Dell XPS 12 laptop with latest Win 10 Pro build started to misbehave here and there, and I used MSCONFIG and set computer to Diagnostic startup – the option in the middle. That locked laptop […]