Developer Rants

This is an article on using the command line tool to deploy reports.

Using tools like this are much needed in a controlled environment when we have a fix set of deployment tools and roles.

We need to put a defined build onto a storage area and be able to reliably deploy it without development tools.

Here as recommend by some bloke on slashdot.

@set _server=MYSERVER

@set _db=MYDATABASE

@set dbcmd=sqlcmd -S %_server% -d %_db% -E -k -W -Q

@REM select ‘%dbcmd% “sp_helptext ”[' + SS.Name + '].[' + SO.name + ']”” > doc\’ + SS.Name + ‘.’ + SO.name + ‘.sql’

@REM   from sysobjects SO

@REM   join sys.schemas SS

@REM     on SO.uid = SS.schema_id

@REM  where SO.type = ‘P’

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This is an article on using ado.net from Powershell

This and This are articles on branching in tfs.

These use a different technique to what I have been using.

TFS has a command line tool: tf

See for details.

This overcomes some but not all of the obvious flaws.

This is a clone of Improv!

Improv was a revolutionary spreadsheet. By keeping the formulas distinct from the data it was far easier to maintain.