Rod Edwards scrapes patch information:
(just for info, i’ve always refer to the SQL Server Version List (https://sqlserverbuilds.blogspot.com) as Blogspot for some reason)
Doesn’t take long, but it would be nice to not have to bother at all, and I don’t mean by moving everything to the cloud and let MS handle it either before anyone says it. 🙂
The details are just websites, so the html is just plain text, AND the awesome people who provide Blogspot also add the details to a publicly shared google doc, in multiple formats, legends.
So what can we do to make our lives even easier. How about downloading/scraping all of the details that you might ever need, and dropping them into tables somewhere? So when its in SQL, you can then choose to trigger off that however you like?
Read on to learn how.