Programming Archive

Generating a Spelling Bee Practice Audio File with Python

This is a bit outside of the SQL Server realm, but might be of interest to some. I was asked to read 100 words recently, two sets of words, for use in a practice spelling test. The

TSQL Tuesday: “Disabling” Triggers Without ALTERs

I’ve worked with my share of Triggers over the years. Most of the time, they were relatively simple affairs – do a simple update to a date if a row changed or track some basic audits somewhere.

Very Simple Data Entry with C# Winforms & Datasets

I recently needed to generate a quick and dirty app for data entry into a normalized database. I’ve done this sort of thing in Access before so started to play with it a little. After getting one