XML Notepad with SSMS
XML is becoming more pervasive in all of MIcrosoft's product, including SQL Server. Jay Dave brings us a short look at how one of their lesser known tools, the XML Notepad, can be used by SQL Server DBAs.
2007-07-26
3,696 reads
Articles
Keep a check on your IDENTITY columns in SQL Server
Be sure you don't end up with arithmatic errors in your identity columns from a SQL Server MVP.
2007-07-26
2,984 reads
A T-SQL Regular Expression Library for SQL Server 2005
This article shows the reader how to construct a library of scalar and table valued functions for SQL Server 2005 to perform regular expression analysis.
2007-07-25
4,024 reads
ADO.NET Entity Framework Overview
ADO.NET in the next release of Visual Studio® code-named "Orcas" features the new Entity Framework.
2007-07-25
2,551 reads
Searching Words and Phrases in a Rich Text Field
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
6,517 reads
Microsoft Windows Power Shell and SQL Server 2005 SMO – Part 4
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
2,479 reads
SQL Server 2005 Express Edition - Part 2
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
2,562 reads
A Love Hate Affair with User Defined Types
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
8,080 reads
Centralized Asynchronous Auditing with Service Broker
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
2,956 reads
Using BCP to export the contents of MAX datatypes to a file
Phil Factor presents a poetic stored procedure for storing any VARCHAR(MAX) to file.
2007-07-23
2,381 reads
Blogs
DiskANN Experiment — Exploring Entry Points and Graph Neighborhoods
Introduction I was experimenting with vector search in SQL Server 2025 using approximately 3.8...
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
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dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts
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Reusing Customer Specific Order Filtering Logic with CROSS APPLY and an Inline TVF (Part 4)
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PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Databases
Which of the following meta commands (sometimes called backslash or slash commands) within psql will provide you with information about the databases on the cluster?
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