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Moving MicrosofOne of the responsibilities of the Microsoft.com opera

One of the responsibilities of the Microsoft.com operations team is to manage the infrastructure that supports the Windows Update and Microsoft Update services, which have client bases in the hundreds of millions and growing. The Windows Update site provides critical updates, security fixes, software downloads, and device drivers for Windows operating systems. Microsoft Update is the service that brings you all the features and benefits of Windows Update.

2006-07-28

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Building the MSDN Aggregation System

After agreeing on our design goals we began looking for technologies to support them. It turned out that SQL Server™ Service Broker offered the asynchronous messaging support we needed and, since the message-queuing infrastructure is tightly integrated with the SQL Server database engine, our existing database backup, administration, and failover procedures could cover our messaging solution as well.

2006-07-26

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Transform your SQL scripts with SQL Prettifier

This article describes the "beta" version of Simple-Talk's SQL formatting tool, SQL Prettifier. It provides links both to try it out online and to download the full source code (members only). Please give us your feedback! We will be offering prizes for any fixes and improvements that make it into "v1". I'd like this to become the de-facto (excuse the pun) tool for presenting code in the Simple-Talk articles, blogs and forums.

2006-07-18

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SqlBulkTool 1.0

SqlBulkTool is a command line utility that is used to quickly create a mirror of a database. It reads its configuration from an XML file containing source and destination command strings and a list of all the tables to mirror and then handles the work of copying the database in an automated and highly parallelized way.

2006-07-17

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SQL Server Full Text Search Language Features, Part 2

This is the second of a two-part article that explores the language features of SQL Full-text Search (SQL FTS), an component of SQL Server 7 and above that allows fast and efficient querying of large amounts of unstructured textual data. Part I dealt with index time language options, covering how words or tokens are broken from the text stream emitted from the iFilters and stored in the index.

2006-07-14

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Question of the Day

What is the PRODUCT

In SQL Server 2025, what does this return? 

CREATE TABLE Numbers
( n INT)
GO
INSERT dbo.Numbers
(
n
)
VALUES
(1), (2), (3)
GO
SELECT PRODUCT(n)
FROM dbo.Numbers

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