If you fancy a quick, fun, muck-around style project in C# then having a play with the System.Speech.SpeechSynthesizer class is definitely a good bet. Below is pretty much the most basic example of using this class which involves simply passing a string to the SpeechSythesizer Speak or SpeakAsync methods. More complicated variations are possible by […]
A common task within SQL is to search an objects definition for a particular reference. This might be a table, column, procedure, function or view name. Below are a few techniques for achieving this. I’ve also highlighted some tables that are related to SQL Server Maintenance Plans and how to start searching interrogating the data […]
Depending on the infrastructure of the application you are working on you may find yourself in need of really being able to interpret what’s going on in the guts of SQL Stored Procedures in a fast and efficient manner. For a small Stored Procedure you’re probably going to find that, locally at least, the debugging […]
I’ve been having a little think about what to cover next, keeping in mind that I want to at least attempt to shorten the posts and not drive everyone nuts with insanely lengthy content, etc. I was chatting to one of my colleagues today and we arrived on the topic of debugging SQL Stored Procedures. […]
Cramming the word ‘sexy’ into the title was a sure-fire way of drumming up some attention. I’m happy to resort to dirty tactics as I’m still rocking my noob colours :-). It’s time to take a trip down the yellow brick, urm, jQuery road? Yes, I’ve said it now, so I’m sticking with it. I’ll […]
So, I’m not afraid to admit that this is taking me a hell of a lot longer than I originally anticipated. I was chatting to my fiancée Claire today about all of my hopes and dreams for this blog. I stated that I wanted to: Keep the posts simple to start with. Keep the posts […]
Hi there. Have a wee look at the about page and hopefully this will give you a clue as to my background and what I hope to achieve. I say achieve very loosely; the end result of all of this might be that nothing tangible actually falls out of the back-end of this big, fat […]
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