Author: jrwren

Hammett announced the availability of Castle Project RC2. Go download it and put it to good use!

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A while ago David Cumps posted about Extracting stored procedure content via SQL.

I liked this post and I knew I wanted to do something with it.  We want to keep a copy of all of our stored procedures in Subversion, our version control system.  This little boo script connects a database server, iterates through all of the stored procedures in all of the databases and outputs them to a directory named after the database.

import System
import System.Data from "System.Data"
import System.Data.SqlClient from "System.Data"
import System.IO


def Main(argv as (string)):

    Exit = System.Environment.Exit
    mkdir = System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory

    if(null!=argv and argv.Length>0):
        databasehost = argv[0]
    else:
        databasehost = "MyDefaultDbServer"

    ignoreDatabases= ["master", 'model', 'msdb', 'Northwind', 'pubs', 'tempdb']
    databases=[]

    connectionString = string.Format("server={0};database=master;Integrated Security=True",databasehost)
    print "using connection string:"+connectionString
    conn = SqlConnection(connectionString)
    cmd = conn.CreateCommand()
    cmd.CommandText="SELECT name FROM master.dbo.sysdatabases ORDER BY name"
    conn.Open()
    reader = cmd.ExecuteReader()
    while reader.Read() :
        if ( not ignoreDatabases.Contains( reader.GetString(0) )):
            databases.Add(reader.GetString(0))
    reader.Close()

    print databases

    for database in databases:
        spNames=[]
        mkdir(database)
        cmd = conn.CreateCommand()
        cmd.CommandText = "use ${database};SELECT name FROM sysobjects WHERE type = 'P' AND category = 0 ORDER BY name"
        reader = cmd.ExecuteReader()
        while reader.Read() :
            spNames.Add(reader.GetString(0))
        reader.Close()

        print "${database}: ${spNames}"
        for spName in spNames:
            cmd = conn.CreateCommand()
            cmd.CommandText = "use ${database}; SELECT text FROM syscomments WHERE id=(SELECT id FROM sysobjects WHERE name='${spName}') ORDER BY colid"
            reader = cmd.ExecuteReader()
            outputf = File.CreateText( Path.Combine(database, "${spName}.sql") )
            while reader.Read():
                outputf.WriteLine(reader.GetString(0))
            reader.Close()
            outputf.Close()
    conn.Close()

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Maybe we like Firefox because it cannot be screwed up as easily as Internet Explorer.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q180176/

Somehow, ALL new IE windows would fail for me.  At first I thought the popup blocker was screwy, but then (weeks or months later) I realized that right clicking and picking open in a new window was also not working.  A quick use of google gave me the above link.

I don’t see how this same kind of thing could happen with Firefox.  Maybe Firefox will be the better browser for my Mom because it can’t as easily get hindered like IE did in this case.

I know that I’ll never have to register COM dlls to fix a Firefox bug.  My fix for IE was easy enough:
regsvr32 shdocvw.dll
regsvr32 actxprxy.dll

But my Mom would NEVER figure this out.

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I like the look of the books, and I’ve referenced Code Better before.  So consider this my entry.

Palermo is blogging about NHibernate again.  It is great to see on Code Better.

I don’t know if Vista upgrade cupons are this soon or not, but I fear it may mean that I’ll want a new computer sooner rather than later.  Of course, I’d be converting the computer to run Ubuntu Linux and run the Windows in a VM.

I finally upgrade my disk in my old computer.   I still don’t know how I was living with a 15G / partition.  It was rough.  I haven’t done such an upgrade in a number of years.  I’m not sure, but I think it was smoother.  I think udev does some magic or something.  I rsynced my / to /newdisk and changed my fstab on the new disk.  fstab maintenance is MUCH smoother using UUIDs and LABELs rather than devices.  In my case I also rearanged cards on my PCI bus so that I could install grub on the SATA drive.  Grub didn’t like the 3ware card, so I’ve been using lilo for the past few years.  I was expecting some problems because sdc was to become sda, but DUH, the module load order didn’t change in my initrd, so sdc did not become sda and it would not have mattered anyway thanks to UUIDs in fstab.  The speed of the 160G SATA disk is so much more than the old 30G disk that it is almost like having a new computer.

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