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The case for ISNULL

Posted on July 21, 2013 by Norbert Krupa

Recently I wrote a function for a report with a CASE block to take in a start and end date, and if the end date was NULL, to use the start date. WHERE theDate BETWEEN @dateStart AND CASE WHEN @dateEnd… Continue Reading →

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Copying a virtual machine from one host to another

Posted on July 2, 2013 by Norbert Krupa

This post will explain the process of copying a virtual machine instance from one host computer to another using Oracle’s VM VirtualBox with Windows 7.

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