Reference
A collection of articles on various topics that interest me. Written mostly in order to document my own solutions to problems, and published in the hope that they may help others save some time.
2011
Disabling Client-side Caching in RavenDB
While editing documents in RavenDB Management Studio for testing, it became evident that the changes were not reflected in the website that was using the database. By default, RavenDB caches client queries. This article describes how to disable this feature, should the need arise.
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2010
Named Pipe Support Broken in PHP 5.3.x on Windows
Named pipe support is apparently broken in PHP 5.3.x on Windows.
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Model-First Entity Framework With .MDF Database Files in App_Data
Embed an SQL server database instance inside your .NET application.
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SQL Management Studio Express Install Fails with Exception
When installing SQL Server Management Studio on top of an existing SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008 R2 installation, the setup program may fail with an exception.
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MySQL default-character-set is Deprecated in Windows Event Log
Current versions of MySQL 5.1.x appear to ship with an outdated default configuration file that generates the warnings in the Windows Event Log.
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SQL Server 2005 Express on Windows Vista 64-bit
At the very bottom of the SQL Server 2005 Express download page, Microsoft offers 64-bit versions of their installers. Unfortunately, this is not everything you need to run SQL Server Express on 64-bit versions of Vista.
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MySQL Configuration Wizzard on Windows Vista
The MySQL Server Instance Configuration Wizzard MySQLInstanceConfig.exe (current version 1.0.10.0) that comes with the MySQL Server Community Edition (current version 5.0.51a) has a typo in the embedded manifest file that prevents it from running on Windows Vista machines.
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