2010-07-22
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Wayne Sheffield
- Website: http://www.waynesheffield.com
2010-05-21
3,290 reads
SQL Server Ranking Functions
A new article from Wayne Sheffield that examines the ranking functions in SQL Server. Learn how you can use ROW_NUMBER(), NTILE(), RANK(), and DENSE_RANK() in your applications.
2010-04-20
14,851 reads
Fixing DBCC CHECKDB Msg 8992 Errors
Returning author Wayne Sheffield recently had some database corruption - read about how it was fixed.
2010-03-03
8,827 reads
2010-02-19 (first published: 2008-12-05)
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2009-05-27 (first published: 2009-04-30)
2,610 reads
Using XML to Enhance the Performance of String Manipulations
This article from Wayne Sheffield shows how the use of XML can speed up those string manipulations in your T-SQL code.
2008-08-20
9,878 reads
Using XML to pass Multi-Select parameters from SSRS to SQL Server
How to use XML to pass Multi-Select parameters from Reporting Services to SQL Server.
2008-05-08
9,709 reads
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers