That said, even though my personal focus is pretty much OO, I still miss stuff. SQL Server 2005 came out with the CROSS APPLY and OUTER APPLY operators and I have just started learning how to use APPLY in the last month or so. When I think I have it figured out, I am fortunate enough that some of you are interested in reading about my understanding of the technology.
2009-11-06
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2009-11-05
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Here is the script that I used in my Dr. DMV presentation this afternoon at PASS. It is a set...
2009-11-05
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We are storing large text and URLs that are over 900 bytes in some of our tables and have a requirement to enforce uniqueness in those columns. But SQL Server has a limitation that index size can't be over 900 bytes. How do I enforce uniqueness in these columns and is it possible to achieve this in SQL Server 2005 and above? What are my different options to solve this problem? I heard that we can use CHECKSUM to create a hash, but is it possible to avoid collisions in the hash value as we are storing millions of rows?
2009-11-05
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Loading EBCDIC data into SQL Server is not a well documented process - this article provides a very useful guide to optimizing the performance of this operation.
2009-11-05
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2009-11-04 (first published: 2009-10-16)
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A step by step example of how to add pre-calculated closing balances through T-SQL and semi-additive measures from Johan Åhlén.
2009-11-04
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It is pretty important to make sure you set the Max Server memory setting for SQL Server 2005/2008 to something...
2009-11-04
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Query performance can be affected by many different factors. This article introduces another best practice of how and how not to use a function within your T-SQL statements.
2009-11-04
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Of all of the reader email I get, just these two things alone reminded me that of course I don't know everything, and many of you are working at a widening level of experience. To that end, this article is an old school article that shows new-to-WinForms programmers how to read data from controls and contrive SQL that updates a database.
2009-11-04
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By Brian Kelley
Here is another short video (~ 15 minutes). This is by the author of...
By Steve Jones
I had a briefing for the 2026 PASS Data Community Summit, which is just...
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