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April 2007 - Posts

Careful what you wish for...

Last time around, I wrote an msbuild-version of WiRunSql.vbs, with one notable exception: WiRunSql.vbs will actually do something meaningful with SELECT staements (other than swallowing them). I implied that I was going to do something about that. Well,
Posted by mwade | 2 Comments

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Running with the SQL

I wasn't totally sure where to head next with the blog entry. First, I was going to do for Insert what I did for Modify: get rid of the SQL statement. But I couldn't think of a way to make that much nicer: realistically, you have to know all of the columns
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A better way to modify tables

Let's go back to our example here and fix one of my pet peeves from earlier: the usability of the helper function is less than spectacular: there is too much knowledge of Windows Installer table information, making this unwieldy. Let's see if we can fix
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