Monthly Archive: August 2011

Aug 31 2011

Possible downtime for picnicerror.net – UPDATED

Just a quick note for anyone visiting the site that there may be some downtime and/or interruptions here on picnicerror.net over the next couple of days as I’m moving to a new hosting provider.  The site will hopefully be back up and stable by the beginning of next week.

Aug 25 2011

Vizualize.Me public beta goes live

View a visualisation of my LinkedIn CV at Vizualize.me

A couple of months ago I posted an article titled Vizualize.Me – your CV as an infographic in a single click, regarding an interesting new visualisation service which, using data from your LinkedIn profile can generate an entire, graphical representation of your CV in a single click.  At the time of writing the post, the service …

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Aug 18 2011

Inserting Large Variable Column Data Files with SQL Server Integration Services – Part 1

Example of the variable column file structure and the database tables used to store transposed data

Just over a year ago I posted a question on my favourite programming Q&A site, Stack Overflow regarding an issue I was having with processing some large, variable column data files using SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services).  Thanks to the great community there, I received an answer rather quickly and was able to develop a …

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