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Really?

Wayne — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:32:26 +0000

In this day and age with security and all, why does this Microsoft provided Windows Phone training kit default it’s installation path to the root?

Windows Home Server Add-in

Wayne — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:24:53 +0000

Here in the UK we had a bank holiday yesterday which of course meant we had 3 days off. So I spent some time with the wife over the last few days and decided that I would embark on new project.

Last week I was looking at the plug-ins for Windows Home Server. I came across one which sync your pictures to flickr. Unfortunately it didn’t work that well, it only uploaded the images within the root of the folder you gave to it.

I looked the forums and there seem to be a lot of people requiring this plug in, but the one available was buggy and the developer hadn’t blogged since last year.

So I decided that I would throw something to gather. After around 8 hours approx. I have my application talking to flickr, uploading.

The next big milestone will figuring out how to write an Windows Home Server Addin. So while 60-70% of the application is pretty much done and working, it won’t work with WHS as intended, so time permitting I’m hoping to a full BETA version ready to go in about two weeks.

T-SQL: Calculate Hours, Mins and Secs from StartTime and EndTime

Wayne — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:27:26 +0000

select
sum(TotalSeconds) / 3600 as Hours,
(sum(TotalSeconds) % 3600) / 60 as Minutes,
sum(TotalSeconds) % 60 as Seconds
from
(
select ArrivalTime, DepartureTime, DateDiff(second, ArrivalTime, DepartureTime) as TotalSeconds
from SSR
where CustomerID = 10
) x

Thanks to this site for the heads up.

T-SQL Queries

Wayne — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 22:57:37 +0000

I was trying to figure out how to get a T-SQL to allow a user to enter part of a name to query on, for example the user could enter ML, click a search button which would return all companies with the letters ML in.

I Googled this and looked on MSDN, to no avail, I knew I had achieve the desired result using access a while back, but I was pretty sure I didn’t have a company so I could check the syntax, then I recalled where a may have a copy which I did, I cracked it open and found the following:

SELECT IngramPriceList.*
FROM IngramPriceList
WHERE IMPartNumber Like ‘*’+[?]+’*’ Or ManufacturersPartNumber Like ‘*’+[?]+’*’ Or VendorName Like ‘*’+[?]+’*';

After entering this syntax into Visual Studio 2005 Express, thinking it work it didn’t, so after reading the required syntax for LIKE in the SQL Express 2005, I came up with this working solution.

SELECT CustomerID, LoginName, [Company Name], StreetAddress, townName, countyName, postcode, ContractType, StartDate, FinishDate, Notes, Active

FROM Customers
WHERE([Company Name] LIKE ‘%’ + @SearchText + ‘%’)

Were as Access uses ‘*’ SQL Server uses ‘%’ instead…. Problem fixed. ?