98% American

Terry Denham — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 20:14:00 GMT

I was reading Sgt Lizzies Blog ( http://www.sgtlizzie.blogspot.com./ ) and ran across this test to see how American you are. Turns out, I'm 98% American.

You Are 98% American

You're as American as red meat and shooting ranges. Tough and independent, you think big. You love everything about the US, wrong or right. And anyone who criticizes your home better not do it in front of you!

How American Are You?

Great book on building your build environment

Terry Denham — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:44:00 GMT

Recently I came across a review for a book that documents how to use NAnt and CruiseControl.NET to automate you build environment. We'll I just got the book delivered yesterday and I've been able to spend a few hours reading it and I'm really looking forward to reading more and clearing up some space in my busy schedule to get back to making our build environment at Telligent more like the ideas proposed in this book. A good read.

Expert .NET Delivery Using NAnt and CruiseControl.NET

Wiki Rules to Live By

Terry Denham — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 21:49:00 GMT

I've started to document the project formerly known as ASP.NET Forums and now known as Community Server :: Forums. In the process of documenting the product I need to add the database schema to the Wiki but being a lazy programmer I'm always looking for more efficient ways to get my work done.

Since I've been working with SQL Server for about 10 years now if I need anything out of the database and I have to generate reports or some kind of tabular data I alwasy try to find a way I can get the information I need from the database and let the database produce the report the way I need it.

So in the Forums Wiki I wanted to generate a heading of Database Schema with each table listed as a link and then when I got to each link I wanted to print each table name again and then the columns in a table with the column name, datatype, key information, nullability and a general comment about the column.

So I wrote a quick little TSQL script to generate the information for me in the proper Wiki format.

select
'!!!Database Schema'
, '1' as [dorder]
union all
select
'[' + o.name + ']'
, '2.' + o.name + '.0'
from sysobjects o where o.type = 'U' and o.name like 'forums%'
union all
select
'!!!!' + o.name
, '2.' + o.name + '.1' [dorder]
from sysobjects o where o.type = 'U' and o.name like 'forums%'
union all
select
'||''''''Column Name''''''||''''''Data Type''''''||'
  + '''''''Nullable''''''||''''''Key''''''||'
  + '''''''Description''''''||'
, '2.' + o.name + '.2' [dorder]
from sysobjects o where o.type = 'U' and o.name like 'forums%'
union all
select '||[' + c.name + ']||'
  + type_name(c.xusertype) + case c.xusertype
    when 62 then '(' + convert(varchar(10), xprec) + ','
     + convert(varchar(10), xscale) + ')'
    when 99 then '(' + convert(varchar(10), length) + ')'
    when 108 then '(' + convert(varchar(10), xprec) + ','
     + convert(varchar(10), xscale) + ')'
    when 165 then '(' + convert(varchar(10), length) + ')'
    when 167 then '(' + convert(varchar(10), length) + ')'
    when 173 then '(' + convert(varchar(10), length) + ')'
    when 175 then '(' + convert(varchar(10), length) + ')'
    when 231 then '(' + convert(varchar(10), length) + ')'
    else ''
   end
  + '||' + case when c.isnullable = 0 then 'no' else 'yes' end + '||||||'
, '2.' + o.name + '.2.' + convert(varchar(20), c.colid) [dorder]
from sysobjects o inner join syscolumns c on o.id = c.id where o.type = 'U' and o.name like 'forums%'
order by 2, 1

Now to generate a Data Dictionary I used the following script.

select '!!!Data Dictionary', '1' as [dorder]
union all
select distinct '[' + c.name + ']', '2.' + c.name
from sysobjects o
inner join syscolumns c
on o.id = c.id
where o.name like 'forums%' and o.type = 'U'
order by 2, 1

Now that the Database Schema and Data Dictionary are created with dummy links I just need to go to each one and create the page and copy in the information that is supposed to be on each page.

General

98% American

Great book on building your build environment

Wiki Rules to Live By