Happy 4th of July
A blooper collection of mistakes and errors from a variety of editorials on this holiday weekend.
2008-07-03
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Articles
Missing Date Ranges- the Sequel
Alex Kozak returns with another Date puzzle. A question from a Simple-Talk reader gives Alex the inspiration to see if is possible to list unused date ranges in one Select statement.
2008-07-03
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The Database Weekly Update for July 7, 2008
Intel is moving in the direction of more and more cores on a single CPU, so what does that mean for programmers?
2008-07-03
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The Database Weekly Update for July 7, 2008
Intel is moving in the direction of more and more cores on a single CPU, so what does that mean for programmers?
2008-07-03
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The Database Weekly Update for July 7, 2008
Intel is moving in the direction of more and more cores on a single CPU, so what does that mean for programmers?
2008-07-03
233 reads
The Many Uses of Coalesce in SQL Server
Many times people come across the Coalesce function and think that it is just a more powerful form of ISNULL. In actuality, I have found it to be one of the most useful functions with the least documentation. In this tip, I will show you the basic use of Coalesce and also some features you probably never new existed.
2008-07-03
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Congratulations to Our New MVPs
Two longtime members of the SQLServerCentral.com community received the well-deserved MVP status this week. Congratulate Jeff Moden and Michael Coles.
2008-07-02
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Recursive Queries using Common Table Expressions (CTE) in SQL Server
The problem arises when the hierarchy level increases as SQL Server is limited to 32 levels of recursion. We need a better way to implement recursive queries in SQL Server 2005. How do we do it?
2008-07-02
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Slowly Changing Dimension in SQL Server 2005 – Part 2
This article is Part 2 in the series which explores the options available in SQL Server 2005 for Slowly Changing Dimensions
2008-07-02
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theSystem - Part III
Continuing on with his series on building a game in SQL Server, Steve Fibich talks about some more of the tables and the data they contain.
2008-07-01
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The Vector Data Type
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The Vector Data Type
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