Adding a field to a database table is sometimes not as simple as it may seem. If certain situations are not considered when adding fields, you may find yourself looking at some long nights fixing database code. Today, database consultant Tim Chapman looks at two such scenarios, and how you can plan for their occurrence.
2009-03-04
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The company I work for has decided to use the encryption technology available in SQL Server 2005. We have almost everything ironed out except for which keys to use in the development, testing, and production environments. Should we use one key for all three environments or different keys for each?
2009-03-03
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Deleting all the data in a SQL Server database doesn't have to involve complex code. The undocumented stored procedure sp_MSForEachTable safely bypasses built-in limitations to accomplish this common task.
2009-03-03
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Greg Larsen introduces some Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) and Dynamic Management Functions (DMFs) to help monitor your application's T-SQL performance. In addition, he provides a Stored Procedure that utilizes the DMVs and DMFs to produce a report that quickly identifies poorly performing T-SQL statements.
2009-03-02
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Loading and processing XML files into SQL Server tables can be simple, thanks to a method that uses SQL Server functions and XPath expressions.
2009-03-02
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Learn about Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 for database professionals, a useful tool for database development with Microsoft SQL Server.
2009-02-27
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Every application uses data, and Android applications are no exception. Android uses the open-source, stand-alone SQL database, SQLite. Learn how to create and manipulate a SQLite database for your Android app.
2009-02-27
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I want to move my database on my SQL Server 2005 system to a new drive, but I have database options, like cross-database ownership chaining, that I don't want to lose or have to remember to re-apply. How can I do this?
2009-02-26
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This article provides an overview and presents an example illustrating the role of transactions in processing Service Broker dialogs usage.
2009-02-26
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This code sample programmatically creates a package that imports a text file into SQL Server, with a Flat File Source and the OLE-DB Destination. This shows how you can leverage the SSIS engine to write your own data import tool for example, but beware importing files is not as simple as it may seem
2009-02-25
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