There Must Be 15 Ways To Lose Your Cursors… Part 2
Learn to use Where, Claire. Plus a conversion methodology, a test harness and more!
2010-07-02 (first published: 2009-04-27)
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There Must Be 15 Ways To Lose Your Cursors... part 1, Introduction
Learn how to leave those Cursors and loops in the thrash, Nash... An article from longtime contributor and SQL expert, Barry Young.
2010-06-30 (first published: 2009-04-14)
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The Sixty-Second Guide to becoming a SQL Server DBA
So you want to be a DBA, but don't know where to start learning what you need to know? R. Barry Young brings you a sixty second guide for how to get moving.
2009-12-04
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Just For Fun: An Impossible Delete
How can you delete only some duplicates? Without Identity's, Temp tables, Cursors, loops or ROW_NUMBER()? Would you believe, go back to the 70's?
2009-10-30 (first published: 2008-08-05)
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2008-08-07
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