If you have used Homebrew to manage your packages, you can also use it to install fonts on your macOS so long as the fonts are available. And as you'll see in the example below, this is way easier (and quicker) than downloading the fonts and install … [Continue reading]
How to Enable Font Ligatures in Visual Studio Code
Ligatures are special characters in a font that combine two or more characters into one. For example, if you use a ligatured font, whenever you type != it will become ≠. Aside from the arguments whether using a ligatured font is good or bad … [Continue reading]
Connect New SSRS Server to Old SQL Server with TLS
This was posted just to share an experience of tackling a problem we encountered when we needed to connect an SSRS Server 2016 to an older SQL Server database (Windows Server 2008 R2) and what steps we took to troubleshoot the issue. After all the … [Continue reading]
How to Use Python to Connect to SQL Server
Can Python work with SQL Server database? Some may argue that SQL Server is not the best SQL database for Python, but in most cases it actually does not matter. In my corporate experience, SQL Server may be the easiest database to use with Python. … [Continue reading]
How to Quickly Query LDAP in Visual Studio SSIS
At times, you need to do a quick query against LDAP, but if your access is quite restricted, sometimes instead of using SQL Server Management Studio, you can also use SSIS Project within Visual Studio to do it. Steps Launch Visual … [Continue reading]