SQL Server Reference Guide
Buck Woody's SQL Server Reference Guide is your "one-stop shop" into the world of Microsoft's SQL Server, providing you with the information you need to manage and program SQL Server.
2007-12-06
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Articles
Introduction to Bitmasking in SQL Server 2005
The use of bitmasking is usually limited to decoding values in the system views, but it can be useful in other places when you want to save space. New author Lee Everest brings us an introduction to bitmasking and its use in SQL Server 2005.
2007-12-05 (first published: 2006-12-13)
18,644 reads
XML Workshop XII - Parsing a delimited string
Continuing with his series on XML structures, this article looks at how to split a string up using XQUERY.
2007-12-05
7,197 reads
File Management with Scripting Object
Once you get familiar with the File Scripting Object (FSO), managing files in Access is not so bad--getting started is the painful part. To help you along, this month's download includes sample code for both Access (early bound) and VB Script (late bound).
2007-12-05
4,203 reads
Storing XML Data in a Relational Database
Use familiar XML markup to extend the capabilities of your relational database.
2007-12-05
2,565 reads
The “sys.dm_os_performance_counters” Dynamic Management View
SQL Server performance can be tracked and monitored by using performance counters. For SQL Server 2005 performance counters can be displayed by using the “sys.os_exec_performance_counters” Dynamic Management View (DMV).
2007-12-05
2,495 reads
Fixing Orphaned Users
Migrating databases between production, test, development and train servers is something that a DBA needs to deal with constantly. During migration, one of the inevitable issues we need to deal with is concept of Orphaned Users.
2007-12-04
11,394 reads
Advanced Matrix Reporting Techniques
In SQL Reporting Services, the native Matrix control provides a crosstab view of data, similar in behavior to a PivotTable in MS Excel. Rows and columns will have intersecting points of data which is often useful in time based reporting . David Leibowitz shows you how...
2007-12-04
2,768 reads
Implementing Common Reference Data in a Data Warehouse
This article provides an architecture and process framework for implementing common reference data in a data-warehousing environment.
2007-12-04
2,734 reads
SQL Server Indexes: The Basics
Indexes directly affect the performance of database applications. This article uses analogies to describe how indexes work. The estimated execution plan feature of the Query Window is utilized to compare the performance of two queries in a batch.
2007-12-04
5,686 reads
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
The Book of Redgate: Mistakes
By Steve Jones
This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has...
ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel
A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during...
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String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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