Posted on August 24, 2009, 12:24 pm, by Rhys, under
Powershell.
Powershell is really useful for documenting and managing your servers but it’s also a pretty good tool for working with data. I’ve been using it to merge csv files, with an identical structure, into a single file. Now this is pretty easy, if rather tedious, to do using SQL Server Import / Export functionality or [...]
Posted on August 10, 2009, 2:40 pm, by Rhys, under
DBA,
T-SQL.
Jorge Segarra (Blog | Twitter) posed the question System Documentation: What’s your method?. In my experience documentation has either been nonexistent, out of date or even worse, plain wrong. These situations often get blamed on lack of time dedicated to documentation tasks. Therefore I’ve always aimed at making documentation easy or even fun. I’ve blogged [...]
Posted on August 5, 2009, 8:53 pm, by Rhys, under
VBA.
In a previous post I demonstrated how a little bit of VBA code can be used to build some basic user interfaces to deliver data. Continuing on with this the examples here will show how to build some basic user interfaces; Combo box (or drop down list) and a Multi-Select List. Like the previous examples [...]