Being a part of the community means that there are certain standards that we'd like you to adhere to. Steve Jones brings you a few reminders of how to behave when posting in the community.
2007-12-19 (first published: 2007-01-01)
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Continuing on with his highly popular XML series, Jacob Sebastian looks at variable content and stylesheets in your SQL content.
2007-12-19
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This is the third article that deals with analyzing the various possibilities involving various RAID setups and differing numbers of hard drives. We used the same hard disks again here: eight Samsung HM321KJ SATA/300 drives powered all of the possible RAID 0, RAID 5 and RAID 6 setups, with from three to as many as eight hard drives configured to use stripe sizes of 4 to 128 kB.
2007-12-19
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Ivan Pepelnjak describes a few ways to extract data from SQL databases and serve it to an AJAX application running in a web browser.
2007-12-19
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Its a graphical representation of login creation in SQL Server 2005 for SQL Server Authentication Mode.
2007-12-18
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How many of you have ever used SET CONTEXT_INFO in your SQL Server applications? Chances are it is not something you have been exposed to, but new author Yousef Ekhtiari brings us an example of how this particular construct can be used in your application.
2007-12-18 (first published: 2006-12-21)
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For our RAID tests, we once again use Samsung HM321KJ SATA/300 drives. This time, we benchmarked RAID 5 and RAID 6 setups with three to eight hard drives.
2007-12-18
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In SQL Server 2008 we get a new DATE date type that allows you to store a date without a time.
2007-12-18
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Using hints in a query is something that most DBAs don't ever seem to bother with, but when they do, NOLOCK seems to be their hint of choice. Wayne Fillis brings us a detailed examination of how this particular hint actually affects the performance of your system.
2007-12-17 (first published: 2007-01-24)
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An exploration of the process of translating a conceptual model to a logical model, and ultimately, a faithful implementation using T-SQL.
2007-12-17
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By Steve Jones
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