XML Workshop XII - Parsing a delimited string
Continuing with his series on XML structures, this article looks at how to split a string up using XQUERY.
2007-12-05
7,072 reads
Jacob Sebastian
XML Workshop XI - Default Namespaces
The eleventh installment of the XML Workshop continues looking at namespaces. This time Jacob Sebastian examines default namespaces and how they impact your XML processing.
2007-11-21
4,447 reads
TSQL Lab I - Playing around with ROW_NUMBER
Real world solutions are key and having different techniques can sometimes help you code quicker. Longtime author Jacob Sebastian shows us how to solve a few problems with different techniques.
2007-11-14
6,175 reads
XML Workshop X - Working with namespaces
With the tenth installment of his series on XML, Jacob Sebastian turns his attention to the art of namespaces and how you can avoid ambiguity in interpreting various elements.
2007-11-07
5,779 reads
XML Workshop IX - Mixed Types
Continuing on with his great series on XML, Jacob Sebastian looks at elements of mixed types.
2007-10-31
3,618 reads
XML Workshop VIII - Custom Types and Inheritance
This is the 8th installment of my XML Workshop which aims at explaining the details of working with XML in TSQL.
2007-10-17
3,674 reads
XML Workshop VII - Validating values with SCHEMA
This installment of the XML Workshop by Jacob Sebastian continues looking at XML Schemas in SQL Server 2005. Here we learn how the format and range of values can be checked using an XML schema.
2007-09-19
4,961 reads
SQL Server 2008 - The Power of Merge
We have a first look at one of the features in SQL Server 2008 that was cut from SQL Server 2005, but which has been highly anticipated. How many times have you written an "insert new, update match" routine? Jacob Sebastion shows us easy this becomes with the new MERGE keyword in SQL Server 2008.
2007-09-11
13,978 reads
XML Workshop VI - Typed XML and SCHEMA Collection
The sixth installment of the XML Workshop for SQL Server shows how the XML Schemas fit into the XML subsystem. Regular author Jacob Sebastian brings structure to your XML documents with a few schema examples.
2007-09-05
7,382 reads
Server Side Paging With SQL Server 2005
One of the more common requests of an application working with SQL Server is to deal with pages, or sections, or data rather than an entire result set. Often an application retreives the entire result set and then only shows the user a few records, repeating the process with the next page. Regular columnist Jacob Sebastian brings us a more efficient method of implementing paging in SQL Server 2005.
2007-08-29
13,561 reads
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