SQL Overview SSIS Package II - Retrieving SQL Error Log
In Part II of his series on monitoring SQL Servers, David Bird takes a look at importing data from your error logs.
2011-07-08 (first published: 2008-01-14)
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Articles
How to develop TSQL Code
The basic texts for developing SQL code tend to leave unsaid the basic techniques for building routines such as stored procedures in TSQL. Phil Factor is well-known for his more lengthy and complex stored procedures, so we asked him to explain in more detail how he goes about developing things without the comfort of Visual Studio.
2011-07-08
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2011-07-07 (first published: 2009-05-27)
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The RECOMPILE Options
This artcle attempts to differentiate between the uses of WITH RECOMPILE and OPTION (RECOMPILE) features.
2011-07-07
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Table Value Constructors in SQL Server 2008
Table Value Constructors (TVCs) are a useful feature of 2008, allowing you to specify tables of values and expressions. Users who are stuck with previous versions of SQL Server can play along, since Rob Sheldon demonstrates that there have always been ways of doing this in SQL Server, though less elegantly.
2011-07-07
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Whether to use UNION or OR in SQL Server Queries
Recently I came across with an article on DB2 about using Union instead of OR. So I thought of carrying out a research on SQL Server on what scenarios UNION is optimal in and which scenarios OR would be best. I will analyze this with a few scenarios using samples taken from the AdventureWorks database
2011-07-06
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Raw Materials - Disapproval
: "It is a narrow mind that cannot see things from more than one point of view." —George Eliot
2011-07-05 (first published: 2009-05-20)
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Top 10 Index T-SQL Statements That SQL Server DBAs Should Know
Indexes speed retrieval of rows from database tables or views. Here are the top index-related T-SQL statements that SQL Server DBAs should know.
2011-07-05
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Remove HTML tags from strings using the SQL Server CLR
It is recommended that you remove all special characters and HTML formatting. This task can be handled in TSQL code, however in this case I have the opportunity to use .NET and the power of the regular expressions to manage the string. In this tip, I'll build a CLR function which cleans up a string of HTML tags and special characters. I'll use Visual Studio 2010 with C# as the programming language. Check out this tip for my solution.
2011-07-04
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SQL Server Service Broker Security
Arshad Ali examines the different types and different layers of security that SQL Server Service Broker provides during communication and while accessing Service Broker objects.
2011-07-04
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