Searching for data in a database is something we all do constantly, but few of us use the Full-Text Search features of SQL Server. Yousef Ekhtiari brings us a look at how you can get around some of the limitations of this feature and possibly use it in your application.
2007-07-24
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Part 3 of this series discussed how to script PowerShell and connect to SQL Server. This installment illustrates how to use a PowerShell script to loop through the content of a file and connect to different servers.
2007-07-24
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Express Edition remains the primary choice for deployments of a full-fledged database engine in less demanding environments. Part two of this series explores its features in more detail in order to better understand its unique role in SQL Server 2005 portfolio.
2007-07-24
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Many new DBAs think that User-defined types are a very cool feature in SQL Server when they first encounter them. However many experienced DBAs soon realize that UDTs can be a pain to work with and longtime SQL Server guru David Poole discusses his experiences
2007-07-23
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Service Broker is a new feature in SQL Server 2005. It is an integrated part of the database engine and it provides queuing and reliable direct asynchronous messaging between SQL Server 2005 instances only. In the future this is planned to be extended to non-SQL Server instances. This article shows how to use Service Broker and triggers to capture data changes.
2007-07-23
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Phil Factor presents a poetic stored procedure for storing any VARCHAR(MAX) to file.
2007-07-23
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Do you wish callers of your library could describe their types to you programmatically? Read a little about reflection in CLR Programming.
2007-07-20
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This article describes how to provide full text search using Microsoft Indexing Service in .NET applications.
2007-07-20
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SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) includes two very interesting transforms, the Fuzzy Grouping and Fuzzy Lookup transformations. Brian Norberg discussed the former in another article and this time examines the Fuzzy Lookup Transformation.
2007-07-19
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SSIS introduced a feature called "Package Configurations". Package configurations allow us to make SSIS packages portable and help us change SQL Server and file connectivity information dynamically.
2007-07-19
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