2011-04-01 (first published: 2008-02-23)
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Adam Haines
Default trace - A Beginner's Guide
This article is the beginner's guide to Default Trace. The article outlines how to query the default trace for key trace events, with a focus on DDL history.
2010-06-11 (first published: 2008-11-11)
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Custom Pagination in SQL Server 2005
Building paging routines in SQL Server can be challenging since SQL wants to deal with full result sets. Adam Haines brings us a technique that you can use in SQL Server 2005 with the new Row_Number function.
2009-01-06
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