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I wrote such a tool for Oracle.
Very simple, primitive, fast and does exactly what it should.
I wouldn't leave it at other organisations though 
About a year later I found out another team in our organisation also had such a tool.
However, it assumed everything was a friggin package and that was all it could work with...
I even ran into a very simple scenario that was not supported by the tool. Can't remember what it was, but I remember saying "this is common practice, basics!"
Horrible 
My previous employer also had such a tool... I don't even want to talk about that one! 
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Nice reply! Yes, there are many here who were writing code before the arrival of EF in 2008 and had already created our own tools for doing the grunt work. IMHO, one of the marks of a good (or maybe just lazy) developer is that they have written a code generator. :thumbsup
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Similar story here, wrote something up in the early 00's at a company that got split up and sold off. Had a project 2 years ago at a completely different employer and industry and going through the code I found that same DAL at the base, complete with my typo'd comments
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I turned a Win7 machine on yesterday for the first time in over three years, and it's been "checking for updates" for the last 15-1/2 hours...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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So, still a long way to go. 
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It's having trouble updating you to Windows 8.0 and Office 365 with Clippy. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Had the same problem. If I remember correctly it's a bug in the updater caused by an update...
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I have a win10 machine that I packed into storage last October that will see the light of day in July, I imagine the update will take some time and a months bandwidth.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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It's probably trying to update to winio.
Yours won't be the first machine bricked by that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My XP Embedded machine took 20 minutes and 2 reboots to get the last 8 months of updates installed
Director of Transmogrification Services
Death Defying Database Dude
Professor of the Yoda Conditional
Shinobi of Query Language
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It might never end - I tried this after 24 hours and was up and running again in less than an hour:-
How to Update Windows 7 All at Once with Microsoft’s Convenience Rollup[^]
The update service had been running on my system for weeks consuming 13% system resources and achieving nothing other than raising the CPU temperature until I installed this. Windows update now runs normally...
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OriginalGriff wrote: that's a fair ways off
Don't count on it. First they wanted it ready last year, then january, then it was this month and now it's autumn.
Berlin is probably going to have a new airport[^] before we can watch this show. And the ship is so ugly that it could have been designed by Mickeysoft.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Autumn ... that's a fair ways off ...
 It wont be autumn as autumn is nearly over for me and I haven't seen it released yet
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RossMW wrote: OriginalGriff wrote: Autumn ... that's a fair ways off ...
It wont be autumn as autumn is nearly over for me and I haven't seen it released yet
What's Autumn?
And no I don't mean Fall either.
Yes, we do have 4 seasons here too: Summer, Summer, Summer and one slightly more rainy Summer.
Even in that rainy Summer rarely rains more than an hour a day (with spectacular lightning), but then again always seems to happen when you want to do something outside or go somewhere.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Meh.
To quote someone from elsewhere... JJ Abrahms cured me from Star Trek. I just can't get excited about it anymore.
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I know what you mean - and Disney is trying to cure us all of Star Wars as well - but ... The Federation universe has such potential that I'll have to watch Discovery just to see if it's Star Trek or Star Truck ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: and Disney is trying to cure us all of Star Wars
I guess you'll just have to let it go 
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What! Surrender to the Evil Mouse Empire! Never! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yes, yes... Let the hate flow through you... Darth Maul Mouse agrees
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OriginalGriff wrote: Disney is trying to cure us all of Star Wars as well
Remember who is also behind Episode 7...
At least, personally I never was much of a SW fan.
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I have a friend who's a carp on the set.
Of course, he is sworn to secrecy - but, reading between the lines, I would venture to predict that something that took an elephanting lot of time and money to construct is destined to asplode.
whoddathunkit.
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As a giant plus, I heard that Michelle Yeoh was out, and get to be pleasantly surprised.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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