Most projects I work on need a list of countries at some point so I put together a snippet of SQL that I could reuse to create and populate a countries table in the database with all countries as given in ISO 3166-1. After recently writing a utility class to populate list controls with world currencies according to ISO 4217 it got me wondering if I could also do the same for countries using only the .Net Framework. And so I came up with the following...
Monday, September 27, 2010
September 27, 2010
Working with SQL Server over the years has made me realize just how much learning I have to do before I can classify myself a database guru. Along the way, I have learned a lot of cool things from various sources, but still have plenty more areas to study. Most of the things that I've learned about SQL Server, as well as many other things, have come from a need for a solution to a particular situation. What I will be discussing...