A T-SQL Regular Expression Library for SQL Server 2005
This article shows the reader how to construct a library of scalar and table valued functions for SQL Server 2005 to perform regular expression analysis.
2007-07-25
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ADO.NET Entity Framework Overview
ADO.NET in the next release of Visual Studio® code-named "Orcas" features the new Entity Framework.
2007-07-25
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Microsoft Windows Power Shell and SQL Server 2005 SMO – Part 4
Part 3 of this series discussed how to script PowerShell and connect to SQL Server. This installment illustrates how to use a PowerShell script to loop through the content of a file and connect to different servers.
2007-07-24
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SQL Server 2005 Express Edition - Part 2
Express Edition remains the primary choice for deployments of a full-fledged database engine in less demanding environments. Part two of this series explores its features in more detail in order to better understand its unique role in SQL Server 2005 portfolio.
2007-07-24
2,562 reads
Centralized Asynchronous Auditing with Service Broker
Service Broker is a new feature in SQL Server 2005. It is an integrated part of the database engine and it provides queuing and reliable direct asynchronous messaging between SQL Server 2005 instances only. In the future this is planned to be extended to non-SQL Server instances. This article shows how to use Service Broker and triggers to capture data changes.
2007-07-23
2,956 reads
Using BCP to export the contents of MAX datatypes to a file
Phil Factor presents a poetic stored procedure for storing any VARCHAR(MAX) to file.
2007-07-23
2,381 reads
CLR: Reflections on Reflection
Do you wish callers of your library could describe their types to you programmatically? Read a little about reflection in CLR Programming.
2007-07-20
2,249 reads
Microsoft Indexing Service HOW-TO
This article describes how to provide full text search using Microsoft Indexing Service in .NET applications.
2007-07-20
2,379 reads
Making SQL Server 2005 Integration Services Packages Portable
SSIS introduced a feature called "Package Configurations". Package configurations allow us to make SSIS packages portable and help us change SQL Server and file connectivity information dynamically.
2007-07-19
2,738 reads
Transaction Isolation and the New Snapshot Isolation Level
Concurrency and transaction isolation are a prickly subject, difficult to explain with any kind of clarity without boring the reader and leaving their poor brain in a complete muddle. Therefore, it is often ignored in the vain hope it won't affect us and we can forget all about it. Well you can't ignore it any more and with SQL Server 2005 there's a whole new isolation level added to the four that already exist.
2007-07-19
2,385 reads
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