Writing Nearly Codeless Apps: Part 1
A new series from David Ziffer describes a way of building applications in a more standardized fashion, and it provides a basic review of some software that can help.
2010-10-06
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Articles
Scripts to use XML to insert and update rows in a SQL Server table
The following production code is what I used for inserting and updating database tables using XML as the input. These scripts are for processing data for any table to insert or update data. The support functions provided, retrieve the table schema with their data types, functions to deal with XML dates, primary keys of the table and what fields can be updated. The following article breaks down this process from beginning to end.
2010-10-06
4,867 reads
Strange but True - Report Parameter Label Blank
Here is another one of those strange but true things that I come across every so often which I thought...
2010-10-06
3,573 reads
Idera SQL Diagnostic Manager 6.2 Review
A look at Idera's Diagnostic Manager and how it can help you diagnose performance issues on your server instance.
2010-10-05
2,025 reads
Auditing with Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 - Part 1
The first in this three part series on using Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 introduces the toolkit and gets started with install and using it.
2010-10-05
1,671 reads
October Question: Tell us about your favorite experience as a participant in the SQL Server community.
There is a thriving world-wide DBA community that offers many opportunties meet other DBAs, to learn from others, and to...
2010-10-05
1,313 reads
TSQL Challenge 40 - Convert string representation of numeric values fr
This challenge involves converting numeric values from binary format to hexadecimal format.
2010-10-04
1,651 reads
Standardize data storage for geography spatial data type in SQL Server
Geography is one of the spatial data types introduced in SQL Server 2008. One of the characteristic of the geography data type is that it can accommodate any supported geometry based on any supported spatial reference system in the same field. So if the data that is stored in a column of geography data type is not standardized, it can be a very tedious and resource intensive task to figure out the geometry and spatial reference system associated with each value. To deal with this issue, we need to standardize the data stored in a field of that has the geography data type and in this tip we will look at how to deal with this issue.
2010-10-04
2,316 reads
The Lone Ranger And Data Integrity
Many IT Pros can relate to the the Lone Ranger. With the aid of but one trusty side kick, the...
2010-10-04
2,238 reads
Partitioning in SQL Server 2008
This article discusses about 'Partitioning'. In this detailed article, a particular emphasis is placed on the implementation of Partitioning in SQL Server.
2010-10-01 (first published: 2009-04-29)
63,595 reads
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