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Monthly Archives: June 2014
Keyser Söze, Code and the World Cup
It seems appropriate given the name of this site and 2014 being a world cup year that I might post something on code that I found a while back now related to establishing fixtures in a league coded by, for … Continue reading
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Complex Event Processing (How Cool)
As part of my timing software solution I had been interested in seeing if there was a better solution to the constant pulling of information from the timing boxes. It would for instance be far better to have some sort … Continue reading
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Step through forms and alter properties.
A nice patch of code that will allow you to cycle through a series of forms and make them read only. Useful if you don’t have immediate access to make changes to the backend, SQL Server or active directory. If … Continue reading
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Attaching Databases to SQL Server 08R2 Express
It should be noted that the following although the easiest way to get a new database into an instance it should not be used in a production environment. In fact doing so may get you sacked. If experimenting though this … Continue reading
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SQL Saturday is coming to Edinburgh
Pretty lucky really some of the worlds most talented DBAs hosting an event about 1km up from my flat. More details can be obtained here. http://www.sqlsaturday.com/281/eventhome.aspx There is a waiting list but might be something for you to think about … Continue reading
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Using VBA to open URL in chrome
Haven’t tried this out but could be useful. I have a digital mapping web application that I link to from a database and it has issues with IE but works perfectly in Chrome… shell(“C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe -url http:google.ca”) Update : … Continue reading
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Scope of variables – And Getting Confused
Note to self If you are wanting to pass parameter values between forms ensure that you place public variables in a module outside of the form. IMPORTANT – additionally ensure that the same variable names are NOT also listed in … Continue reading
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