2008-03-13
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Articles
2008-03-13
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2008-03-13
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Not In v Not Equal
Is it better to use NOT IN() or <> in a T-SQL query? Ken Johnson had the question put to him and decided to investigate them both. Read about how these two functions perform.
2008-03-12 (first published: 2007-05-29)
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XML Workshop XV - Accessing FOR XML results with ADO.NET
The next installment of Jacob Sebastian's great series on XML looks at how a .NET application might consume XML data returned from SQL Server.
2008-03-12
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Data Generator Source Adapter
The Data Generator Source is now available for SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008. This component needs little explanation. It generates random integer (DT_I4) and string (DT_WSTR) data and places them in the pipeline.
2008-03-12
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Implementing Table Inheritance in SQL Server
When designing a database, we sometimes come across situations where there are multiple types of entities that we are modeling, but we'd like them to all have certain attributes or relations in common. Using "sub-type" tables is a simple way to implement table inheritance in SQL Server.
2008-03-12
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Scaling Out
Scaling out is hard to do with SQL Server, but why doesn't Microsoft build a better solution?
2008-03-12
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Scaling Out
Scaling out is hard to do with SQL Server, but why doesn't Microsoft build a better solution?
2008-03-12
37 reads
Scaling Out
Scaling out is hard to do with SQL Server, but why doesn't Microsoft build a better solution?
2008-03-12
37 reads
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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