ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress

Error “ORA-01033 ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress” plagued me twice, not a third, unprepared!
Since this was the second time this happened to me so I decided I should get all my ducks in a row cause if it happened twice, it will most likely happen a third time, if not to me, then to [...]

.NET DataGridView Edit Pencil Icon

There’s a problem when editing the DataGridView.
Problem: The pencil glyph icon in edit mode wouldn’t go away. Here’s the situation and the solution.
Solution: If the property Virtual is set to false the glyph will go away, period.
Even after doing this, a call to the EndEdit() function wasn’t required to make the glyph go away even [...]

Visual Studio DataGridView

An application I wrote to compare values in the rows of two datagridviews, set side-by-side, will hide rows if no difference is found; which then leaves just the rows that are different. Simple enough, but an error was thrown when one of the grid’s cells was active. This is the error.
Row associated with the currency [...]

SQL Server 2005 Agent Schedule Not Updating

Ewwwh, this was a nasty little bug. Let me describe the title … I was having to update all our database data and schema to support the GMT/UTC baseline and then accounts and clients would register what timezone they are in and our system would reflect the dates and times from GMT/UTC to the registered [...]