Longtime SQL Server expert Michael Coles brings us the second part of his his introductory look at XML in SQL Server 2005 with a short examination of XQuery, the way in which you can write queries on XML data.
2008-01-31 (first published: 2007-02-20)
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This is one in a series of articles dealing with Database Design following the design of a single system from start to finish.
2008-01-31
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In this article I will settle down a little bit and share with you tools that I have used as part of the data governance trade.
2008-01-31
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Working with large images or other BLOB data can be a challenge for many DBAs. Andrew Sears brings us some code that can help you extract some of that data out of BLOBs and get it back into a more easy-to-work-with format.
2008-01-30
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Stored procedures can be an effective way to handle conflicting needs, but it's not always so obvious how to write them so they both perform well and scale.
2008-01-30 (first published: 2007-02-05)
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Paul Randal of SQLskills takes a look at lock escalation in SQL Server 2008
2008-01-30
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Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
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