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Creating XML in SQL Server

XML has become a common form of representing and exchanging data in today's information age. SQL Server introduced XML-centric capabilities in SQL Server 2000. That functionality has been expanded in later releases. One aspect of working with XML is creating XML from relational data, which is accomplished utilizing the FOR XML clause in SQL Server.

2010-06-22

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Configure Windows Firewall for SQL Server 2008 Integration Services in Windows Server 2008 R2

I have installed SQL Server 2008 on Windows Server 2008 R2 and I am unable to connect to SQL Server 2008 Integration Services Instance from SQL Server 2008 Management Studio which is installed on another remote server. As I am new to Windows Server 2008 R2 it would be great if you can let me know the step by step approach to enable the default port of SQL Server 2008 Integration Services in Windows Firewall for user connectivity.

2010-06-21

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Sorting data in the SSIS Pipeline (Video)

In this post I want to show a couple of ways to order the data that comes into the pipeline. a number of people have asked me about this primarily because there are a number of ways to do it but also because some components in the pipeline take sorted inputs. One of the methods I show is visually easy to understand and the other is less visual but potentially more performant.

2010-06-18

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Writing a Data Access Layer (DAL) for SQL Server

In this tip, I am going to show you how you can create a Data Access Layer (to store, retrieve and manage data in relational database) in ADO .NET. I will show how you can make it data provider independent, so that you don't have to re-write your data access layer if the data storage source changes and also you can reuse it in other applications that you develop.

2010-06-17

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How to Conduct Effective Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Software Evaluations

Denise Rogers discusses the essential tasks in conducting effective software evaluations revolving around data warehousing and business intellegence. Each step has a dependency on the previous one, starting with establishing the framework of the evaluation and adding progressively elaborate data that facilitates a decision making process that is resolute.

2010-06-11

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SQL Server and the XML Data Type : Data Manipulation

The introduction of the xml data type, with its own set of methods for processing xml data, made it possible for SQL Server developers to create columns and variables of the type xml. Deanna Dicken examines the modify() method, which provides for data manipulation of the XML data stored in the xml data type via XML DML statements.

2010-06-08

3,264 reads

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BIT_COUNT I

In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:

UserID  UserPermissions
15
23
37
What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount
from dbo.UserPermission
where UserID = 3;

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