Tag: SQLCLR

Creating cards in Trello via the REST API and parsing the returned JSON all in a SQL CLR
By Art on November 12, 2014

I recently blogged about how good I thought Trello was and shortly afterwards I found out that they did provide a full read/write RESTful API. Awesome! After a bit of thought I realised that I should be able to use the API to create new cards in Trello from within SQL by simply calling a CLR procedure and I could […]

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Convert UK Postcode to Latitude/Longitude/Northing/Easting using SQL CLR
By Art on September 25, 2014

Just a quick post this time. I had a requirement to convert a small number of UK based postcodes to their latitude/longitude locations so I could use that data within some Tableau dashboards that I’m working on. I had a look around to see what I could find and quickly found both sites that exposed an API to do lookups […]

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FIGlet SQLCLR ASCII Font Art
By Art on February 13, 2014

If you haven’t heard of the name before, you must have seen what it does at some point. FIGlet which was first developed in the ’90s is a freeware large ASCII art generator which generates text from standard characters. It had quite a number of fonts contributed by others during the first few years but not many in recent years […]

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