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Great dining experience at Trebeker’s

On a tip from a friend, we checked out Trebeker's Fresh Poultry Buffet this last weekend. Great dining experience! Freshest damn chicken I've ever had, prepared exactly how I like it. Once we got over the initial revulsion of being directly responsible for the death...

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DBX 10.2.0 Released

While I still don't actively work on DBX anymore, I did have occasion to work on a client using SQLServer and took the opportunity to add/enhance a few things that were annoying me: added a filter for the left-hand TOC which does simple string-matching to filter...

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T-SQL function to de-duplicate lists

Needed a function to de-duplicate string lists, so I modified a similar UDF from SQLAuthority. That original UDF didn't preserve the position of list elements or handle case sensitive comparisons, and I wasn't too keen on the variable naming. Anyway, my version is...

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Realtek sound stuttering on Windows 7 Solved

There are tons of people with the same issue (sound stutters, delays, etc.) on Windows 7 with Realtek on-board sound cards and I have found that simply disabling Windows Defender completely solved my problem. I have Webroot and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware installed, and...

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