Peripheral Wizardry

I love that the Web helps people solve their problems by finding out how other people of solved theirs. To give back to the Web, here are a couple of tips that I hope Google will be kind enough to share!

1. Optimizing a query by making it do more

It seems counterintuitive, but there are times when asking the database to apply additional query criteria can result in significantly improved performance...

2. Utilizing two VPNs from the same client (Cisco and SafeNet)

As part of my work, I need to access my customers' networks via VPN. Naturally, they don't all use the same VPN client software, and, equally obviously, the VPN clients are completely incompatible...