Users From Hell
A little off topic (or is it?), David needed to vent a little - something we can all appreciate. Meant to be light hearted fun, please don't take too seriously.
2004-04-19
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David Poole
- Interests: Badminton, Cycling and Music. Keen piano player.
SQL Server Statistical Functions
I bet most of us count and sum fairly often, but how often do you use the rest of the 'in the box' statistical functions? Learn these now and be ready when you need them.
2004-01-12
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Using Bits to Store Data
David recently worked on a project where it turned out storing the answers to a survey using bitmapping was a good approach. He was good enough to write some of it down and share. As he notes bitmapping isn't used as often as it used to be, but it can still be a useful technique to have around.
2004-01-06
6,405 reads
Dealing with Addresses
David writes about the system he put together to handle addresses and the pros and cons of various techiques. Familiar with Soundex? He uses that too! Even though some of the info is specific to Great Britain, it's good reading. Addresses are one of the hardest pieces of information to handle!
2003-07-01
10,917 reads
SQL and IIS on the same Box?
David takes us through why he believes trying to run SQL and IIS on the same box is a bad idea. It's a common notion that it IS a bad thing to do, but you have real justification? Read this and you will!
2003-06-20
14,456 reads
Lessons from my first Project as a Project Manager
David tries his hand at Project Management and what follows is a list of tips and problems from that experience. As David points out, it's interesting to see things from the other (not developer or DBA) point of view.
2003-06-04
5,751 reads
Inherriting objects from an updated MODEL database
If new objects are created in the model database then these new objects only get created for new databases.Similarly, if objects are removed from user databases then getting them back into the database can be a pain.The following two stored procs copy objects from model to the current database if they do not already exist.
2003-01-10
31 reads
To find the next available ID
There are times when you have a limited range of ids and these have to be re-used as they become available.The script lists the first missing id in a table.Note that this script works best for a table with a limited number of rows, say sub 100,000I tested this on a PIII 500MHz 256Mb RAM […]
2002-12-09
183 reads
Querying XML files using SQL 2000
One of the many useful features gained by SQL Server 2000 is the ability to handle XML documents. This means that any computer language capable of opening an XML files and calling SQL Server stored procedures can make use of this new ability. This article by David Poole shows you how!
2002-10-11
11,989 reads
Function to return a delimited list as a table
This SQL2000 function accepts a delimited list of values as a string and the character you want to use as a delimiter.The function then splits these out and returns them as a table.The function assumes that the input string will contain unique integer values.Useage: - SELECT Id FROM fnSplit('1,2,3,4' , ',')
2002-06-27
579 reads
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