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Haven't been around for a while, but doing some interesting work with Database Refactoring and Effective Dating...more posts coming soon....
2010-03-10
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Sam Bendayan
Effective Dating Series Part I - The Problem
What are the benefits of Effective Dating and what problems does it solve?
2009-10-01
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Beware the REPLACE function when doing heavy string parsing
I found something interesting the other day. I was attempting to optimize a very heavy string parsing routine using T-SQL and was having problems. I don’t normally use T-SQL for such heavy string parsing, but this was a special case of a legacy structure that I had to work with, so I had no choice.
2009-08-27
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Beware the REPLACE function when doing heavy string parsing
I found something interesting the other day. I was attempting to optimize a very heavy string parsing routine using T-SQL...
2009-08-23
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Trouble printing out long VARCHAR(MAX) strings?
Ever try to print out a long VARCHAR(MAX)/NVARCHAR(MAX) string, only to find that it's truncated at 8,000/4,000 characters? How do you get around this? New author Sam Bendayan shows us how.
2009-07-29
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To Date or Not To Date….
OK….so I’m in the middle of a very interesting Effective Dating project…basically we’re dealing with some tables that only store current data, but there is a need for future-dated data as well. Because the base table can’t hold that data...
2009-05-18
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What's a DBA
Most of us are tired of this overused, vague term. How many of you have clicked on a 'DBA' job posting only to find that it's not what you do? Or asked for a DBA resume from a recruiter and gotten something other than what you expected? Or...
2009-05-14
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To Date or Not To Date….
OK….so I’m in the middle of a very interesting Effective Dating project…basically we’re dealing with some tables that only store...
2009-05-13
1,608 reads
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2009-05-12
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What's a 'DBA'?
Most of us are tired of this overused, vague term. How many of you have clicked on a 'DBA' job...
2009-05-12
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Blogs
A New Word: Feresy
By Steve Jones
feresy – n. the fear that your partner is changing in ways you don’t...
Mastering the ORDER BY Clause in SQL Window Functions
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the ORDER BY clause within SQL window...
SQL Data Pipelines: The Ultimate Guide to Streamlining Your Data Flow
Want to build a data analytics foundation that transforms raw data into valuable business...
Forums
The Cloud Security Problem
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Cloud Security Problem, which...
Iterative query to sum a colum relating to dates.
Hi, I have a simple table with 5 columns as follows with about 80,000...
how to force SS to run certain SP in parallel?
hi everyone I have a SP that is run in SSIS. That particular SP...