2007-06-25
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Additional Articles
Using SQL Server Table-Valued User-defined Functions with Exchange Web
The SQL Server Tables and Exchange Web Services sample demonstrates a powerful integration of Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft SQL Server™ 2005 features. This integration enables you to provide data from both Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server to client applications so that the data appears as if it were stored in SQL Server. As you will see, this creates some exciting development scenarios.
2007-06-22
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Ignoring a SSIS Checkpoint
One thing that people typically want to do is always execute a particular task regardless of whether a checkpoint file exists or not. In this video, Jamie shows you how to create a package that can conditionally skip a checkpoint if it's in place.
2007-06-21
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Security Tool Survey
Red Gate is looking to expand upon their ever-growing list of extremely helpful tools and asking for help from you DBAs out the real world. They have a survey with 20 questions on Security Tools and 5 people will be chosen to win a goodie bag. I have no idea what's in the bag, but it should be interesting.
2007-06-21
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Using OVER() with Aggregate Functions
One of new features in SQL 2005 that I haven't seen much talk about is that you can now add aggregate functions to any SELECT (even without a GROUP BY clause) by specifying an OVER() partition for each function. Unfortunately, it isn't especially powerful, and you can't do running totals with it, but it does help you make your code a little shorter and in many cases it might be just what you need.
2007-06-20
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SqlCredit - Part 5: Adding Card, Vendor, and Purchase, Plus Much Refac
As I built out the last pieces of the original table set (Card, Vendor, and Purchase), I found a number of pieces that needed to be fixed in the design.
2007-06-19
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SQL Server Management Objects
In this column, I discuss how SMO can be used to examine a database’s objects and to perform a variety of administrative tasks.
2007-06-18
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SqlCredit - Part 4: Schema and Procedure Security
In this month’s installment, we will add security to the existing code and add new unit tests to prove that security.
2007-06-15
2,657 reads
Use of regular expressions in TSQL
This script creates 2 new system functions :fn__testregexp(@String,@Pattern) returns int execute the method test(@String) on the regular expressions @Pattern returns : 0 : no match 1 : match null : one of the parameters was null anything else : error from sp_OA procedure fn__replaceregexp(String,@Pattern,@Replace) returns varchar execute the method Replace(@String,@Replace) […]
2007-06-14 (first published: 2004-04-07)
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SqlCredit - Part 3: Schema/Proc Updates and Automated Unit Testing
In this month’s installment, we will discuss updates based on feedback from part 2 as well as introduce automated unit testing.
2007-06-14
2,494 reads
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