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I recently wrote about a database tool that I have built to facilitate adding stored procedures to databases, SP Builder.   XL-Dennis made a couple of comments, one of which was with regards to the medium used for the script file. He talked about XML files, and whilst I had used an INI file when I originally built it I had thought about using XML but dismissed it at the time as my XML skills and knowledge were minimal to put it mildly (oddly, I have been aware of and using XML for over 12 years now, mainly as a … Continue reading The XML Is On The Kid

In a previous post, I talked about building stored procedures (SPs)in an Access database, and calling the same from Excel using ADO. As I mentioned in that post, I am not a fan of the Access GUI. Whilst GUIs can be okay for doing some simple testing, checking whether something works or, I find it far easier to build a script when I need to do similar things over and over (such as building all of the SPs for an application). I am an inveterate scripter (see Autogen’ed Ribbon Code and XML Is Such A Pain); rather than build the … Continue reading The Kid Grows Up