Building a Demo System - Part 3
Continuing on looking at demo servers, this article presents an interesting solution to ensuring consistent demos that was deployed out in the field for a client company.
2003-01-13
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Articles
Defend Your Code with Top Ten Security Tips Every Developer Must Know
Microsoft tells us why it's so important to defend your code against malicious attacks.
2003-01-10
243 reads
Case Study: Importing New Data Without Emptying Existing Tables
The challenge for Robert Marda was to devise a way to keep the data available at all times while importing the new data, detect if a full or daily update was received and run appropriate data pumps, put in sufficient fail safes to ensure bad data would not get imported, and to make the process automatic including notification to pagers upon failure. Robert shows you how he did it here.
2003-01-09
8,232 reads
Default Values and Named Parameters for Stored Procs
Are you using default values for your parameters? Using named parameters when you call the proc or passing the values by ordinal? Should you be? Andy thinks 6 out of 10 of our readers will agree with his point of view, we'll be a little more conservative and guess that 5 of out 10 will be closer.
2003-01-08
8,312 reads
The Best of SQLServerCentral.com 2002
Steve discusses a potential new project we have in the works. We'd appreciate as many comments and votes on this one as possible.
2003-01-06
7,968 reads
How to globally search and replace data in SQL Server databases?
This article provides you with a simple stored procedure, that can search all the columns of all the tables in the current database, and replace a given search string with another string.
2002-12-31
1,269 reads
Beware of Mixing Collations: Converting Collations
With SQL Server 2000 you are able to create databases or columns with a different collating setting than the server. This article will explain a couple of methods Greg has used to successfully change collation settings.
2002-12-30
8,782 reads
How to pass a list/array to an SQL Server stored procedure?
Unfortunately, there is no built-in support for arrays in SQL Server's T-SQL. This article provides 5 different techniques to simulate arrays in T-SQL, with working examples. It also provides you with links to additional information and books.
2002-12-27
82 reads
Freeware Extended Sproc to Read and Write to a Text File
This free extended stored procedure can read and write to a stored text file. Perfect for writing error logs!
2002-12-24
161 reads
Backup and Restore Back to Basics with SQL LiteSpeed
This article analyzes the various options available for your backup and recovery process with SQL Server 2000 as well as an enhancement to your SQL Server backup and recovery process using a highly efficient backup and restore utility that provides significant time and disk space savings called SQL LiteSpeed.
2002-12-23
11,310 reads
Blogs
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Question of the Day
Using CHOOSE()
We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.
CREATE TABLE Status
(
StatusID INT,
StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
StatusID,
StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned? See possible answers