In a followup to his article on SQL Server Everywhere, Jacob Sebastian takes a more in-depth look at the smallest platform for SQL Server, Compact Edtion.
2008-06-05 (first published: 2007-07-10)
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SQL Server MVP Jacob Sebastian continues his very successful XML series with a foray into SQL Server 2000's XML capabilities for generating custom documents.
2008-06-04
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Accessing your SQL Server without Enterprise Manager or Management Studio can be a difficult task without a custom application. Especially if you are not in the office. Jacob Sebastian brings us an open source application that can make this much easier for DBAs.
2008-05-27 (first published: 2007-06-27)
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Quickly becoming the SQL Server XML expert, Jacob Sebastion brings us a great new article that expands upon his very popular series on XML in SQL Server. This time he examines the FOR XML PATH option, which provides additional formatting capabilities.
2008-05-22 (first published: 2007-06-20)
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Tracking changes to your development environments is important to ensure that your deployments to production go smoothly. Jacob Sebastion brings us a look at how well the Visual Studio Team System Edition for Database Professionals can help you with this task.
2008-05-19 (first published: 2007-07-25)
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Continuing on with his amazing series on XML, SQL Server MVP Jacob Sebastian shows us how to use XML in SQL Server 2005 to generate an ATOM feed.
2008-05-15
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Continuing on with his series on XML, Jacob Sebastian looks at some more advanced XML techniques in SQL Server 2005.
2008-05-05 (first published: 2007-05-09)
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In the first article of a new series on T-SQL tips, Jacob Sebastian brings us a very useful technique. How to pass a table to a stored procedure so some set of rows can be operated on using some business logic.
2008-05-02 (first published: 2007-05-30)
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Continuing on with part 18 of his series, MVP Jacob Sebastian examines building an RSS feed in T-SQL.
2008-04-09
6,541 reads
How many times have you wished that your queries performed better? Performance Tuning is a bit of an art, but learning about new techniques and which things work help grow your knowledge. Jacob Sebastian brings us the first part of a series on writing better performing queries.
2008-03-31 (first published: 2007-05-22)
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