Extended Properties Introduction
Part one of a four part series intent on demystifying and making more accessible SQL Server extended properties
2013-09-27 (first published: 2011-03-17)
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Data Profiling with T-SQL
Need to understand new data? This article explains why - and how you can profile it efficiently
2013-02-25
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Slowly changing dimensions using T-SQL MERGE
Of all the technical solutions to the problem of slowly changing dimensions, the T-SQL MERGE statement is one of the most elegant.
2011-06-20
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Industrial-strength database documentation using Extended Properties
To finish this short series on extended properties a look at documenting sets of database objects
2011-04-05
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Modifying and deleting extended properties
Continuing the short series on extended properties, this article explains how to turbocharge the creation of extended properties
2011-03-29
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Extracting Extended Properties
In this second article of a short series we look at using the Extended Properties which you have added to a database
2011-03-22
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A faster way to prepare dimensional databases
When you are obliged to create a dimensional database for an SSAS cube, how can you do it as fast as possible?
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Fast normalization of a denormalized data source, using surrogate IDs
A cursor-free way of normalizing data from a denormalized data source into a database which uses "surrogate" IDs.
2010-01-25
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SQL Server Agent Jobs – Displaying Status in an Application
This article shows ways of getting feedback to your users when running a SQL Server agent job from an ASP.NET page
2009-09-16
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Returning full error details from SQL Server Agent jobs
Tired of the truncated error history that is available for SQL Server Agent jobs in SSMS, here is a way to get deeper information - easily!
2009-09-09
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Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
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