Writing Nearly Codeless Apps: Part 5
In this next installment of the series on writing codeless applications, David Ziffer looks at the querying of data from the database.
2010-11-03
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David Ziffer
Writing Nearly Codeless Apps: Part 4
Part four of this series on rapid application development looks at the CRUD routines that are needed for almost every application.
2010-10-27
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Writing Nearly Codeless Apps: Part 3
As we continue in this series, see how auditing tables are used to track all changes that are made to the main data tables.
2010-10-20
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Writing Nearly Codeless Apps: Part 2
In this article, learn why it makes sense to build a more standarized, more robust database based on rules and see how data modeling works in the RAP software.
2010-10-13
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Writing Nearly Codeless Apps: Part 1
A new series from David Ziffer describes a way of building applications in a more standardized fashion, and it provides a basic review of some software that can help.
2010-10-06
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Use Excel to DIFF Your Query Outputs
Comparing data from two queries to see if they return the same results can be an interesting challenge. David Ziffer brings us a great way to do this using Excel.
2008-12-31
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Build Great Looking Excel Spreadsheets
Exporting data from your database and building reports is easy with Reporting Services, but sometimes you need to use other sources
2008-11-05
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Creating a generic audit trigger with SQL 2005 CLR
Auditing is becoming more important all the time for DBAs as regulations and requirements increase. Building auditing into your systems can be done a number of ways, but with SQL Server 2005, you have a new option. New author David Ziffer brings us a generic auditing CLR trigger.
2006-08-02
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There is a table tmp_tab:
CREATE TABLE tmp_tab ( id int, val int );
INSERT INTO tmp_tab VALUES (1, 1), (2, NULL), (3, 3), (4, 4), (5, 5);You want to order the rows ids by the following expression:
ISNULL(val, id) + 1Which of the following queries produces the expected ordering and why? (Select all correct) See possible answers