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ChrisF
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  • United Kingdom
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I've been a developer for over 30 years in one form or another. I learnt Pascal at University and my first job was programming in Fortran 66. I've since moved to C# & .NET via Ada, C and C++.

Over the years I've used most operating systems (apart from MacOS), starting with PR1MOS and then moving onto various flavours of Unix. I'm now exclusively on Windows, but thinking of getting into iPhone/iPod touch/iPad development (if only I could afford a MacBook Pro!).

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How can I output more than 256 characters to a file?
Feb 24, 2017
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Which of the following pieces of SQL is most efficient
Oct 13, 2014
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Can't read data out of XML stored in table column
Jan 6, 2023
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Should I normalize my string arrays, or just keep it a simple string?
Feb 26, 2015
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How can I output more than 256 characters to a file?
Mar 7, 2017
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How can I override the default values for a parameter in a report?
Mar 12, 2019
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How can I override the default values for a parameter in a report?
Mar 13, 2019
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Can't read data out of XML stored in table column
Jan 9, 2023
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Conditional join on a third table
Aug 26, 2016
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Prevent SQL from apparently executing an expensive sub query
Dec 4, 2020
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Foreach loop, determine which is the last iteration of the loop
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Setting and getting Windows environment variables from the command prompt?
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How do I make XAML DataGridColumns fill the entire DataGrid?