http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Content tagged Visual Basic 6, ADO posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)The third article in a four part series, this week Andy shows how to use the command object to work with stored procedure parameters. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Stored+Procedures/introductiontoadothecommandobject/535/2007/02/09http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Stored+Procedures/introductiontoadothecommandobject/535/How do you easily copy DTS packages from one server to another? DTS, BCP, T-SQL? Are there advantages to using one method over another? Andy did some research - read the article and see what works and what doesn't! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/copyingdtspackagestoadifferentserver/638/2006/05/05http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/copyingdtspackagestoadifferentserver/638/Need to apply changes to customer (or internal) databases in a calm, controlled manner? Dinish proposes an alterative to standard scripts that uses XML and a small VB app. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Visual+Basic+6/changingdatabasesusingxml/1285/2004/02/16http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Visual+Basic+6/changingdatabasesusingxml/1285/Andy returns to the Worst Practice series this week with a short article looking at how connection strings in applications affect what you see in sysprocesses. Perhaps less controversial (in our opinion) that some of the other worst practices, this is something easy to fix and definitely worth fixing! Read the article and post a comment - explore other points of view! Readers posting a comment will be entered in a drawing for a copy of the SQL Server 2000 Resource Kit. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/worstpracticebadconnectionstringsandbadinfoinsyspr/802/2003/08/01http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/worstpracticebadconnectionstringsandbadinfoinsyspr/802/If you're a VB.NET programmer who wants to learn database programming with ADO.NET, here's a new book that presents all the skills you need in a logical progression from the simple to the complex. Along the way, you'll learn how to use the classes, properties, methods, events, and techniques that have made this subject so hard to master. And when you're done, you'll have a reference that you'll use on the job every day. (Publisher Provided Description, not reviewed) http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/1005/2003/06/05http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/1005/Are you using default values for your parameters? Using named parameters when you call the proc or passing the values by ordinal? Should you be? Andy thinks 6 out of 10 of our readers will agree with his point of view, we'll be a little more conservative and guess that 5 of out 10 will be closer. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/defaultvaluesandnamedparametersforstoredprocs/882/2003/01/08http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/defaultvaluesandnamedparametersforstoredprocs/882/Andy takes a look at the new book on DMO and likes what he sees - "great book for beginner and intermediate DMO users!". We've been supporters of DMO for a while and we're glad to see a new book on the subject. Read the review, add your comments, buy the book! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/reviewofrealworldsqldmo/842/2002/11/19http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/reviewofrealworldsqldmo/842/In this article Andy looks at one way you can separate your presentation code from your data when you generate HTML tables for simple reports. Lots of code examples so you can see how it works. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/generatinghtmltables/749/2002/08/05http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/generatinghtmltables/749/How do you easily copy DTS packages from one server to another? DTS, BCP, T-SQL? Are there advantages to using one method over another? Andy did some research - read the article and see what works and what doesn't! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/copyingdtspackagestoadifferentserver/638/2006/05/05http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/copyingdtspackagestoadifferentserver/638/This week Andy continues his series on how to reduce the number of round trips to the server by looking at some things you can easily add to your applications without a lot of rearchitecting. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning+and+Scaling/reducingroundtripspart3/621/2002/03/11http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning+and+Scaling/reducingroundtripspart3/621/Architectural choices for data access affect performance, scalability, maintainability, and usability. This article focuses on the performance aspects of these choices by comparing relative performance of various data access techniques, including Microsoft® ADO.NET Command, DataReader, DataSet, and XML Reader in common application scenarios with a Microsoft SQL Server™ 2000 database.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/620/2002/03/01http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/620/Last week Andy started a discussion of the various ways you can reduce the number of round trips to the server. This week he continues by looking at a method he used recently to do client side caching of data to eliminate the round trip altogether. Gotta read it! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/reducingroundtripspart2/588/2002/02/06http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/reducingroundtripspart2/588/This sample is provided in conjunction with the MSDN Magazine article, "SQL Server 2000 and XML: Developing XML-Enabled Data Solutions for the Web." This article presents and compares five data access approaches, using a variety of technologies including ASP and ADO, XSLT, and DirectXML. Once built, the solutions are compared on the basis of their speed and efficiency. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/575/2002/01/18http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/575/This week Andy takes a look at a new product from Red-Gate that gives you even more options than you get with their SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare tools - now you can build your own. Add the features you always wanted. Build automated processes instead of using the GUI. It's an interesting product - read the review and then maybe even enter the contest to win a free copy. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/reviewofsqlcomparisonandsynchronizationtoolkit/580/2002/01/16http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/reviewofsqlcomparisonandsynchronizationtoolkit/580/The third article in a four part series, this week Andy shows how to use the command object to work with stored procedure parameters. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Stored+Procedures/introductiontoadothecommandobject/535/2007/02/09http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Stored+Procedures/introductiontoadothecommandobject/535/This white paper describes how to use the connection pooling objects included with the Microsoft XML for Analysis Provider to develop scalable client and Web applications for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services. (11 printed pages) http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/420/2001/09/11http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/420/