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Using metadata to drive software is very useful, which means that having clean data and lots of metadata can help create better software.
2021-03-30
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Using metadata to drive software is very useful, which means that having clean data and lots of metadata can help create better software.
2021-03-30
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2020-09-30
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There is a lot of information held in SQL Server metadata about your SQL Server procedures, triggers, views and functions. Some of it is valuable, other nuggets are useful and a few are rather dull but worthy. It really all needs to be tied together to tell the full story, especially if you are not able to, or do not want to, query the metadata directly.
2019-12-02
To be able to make full use of the system catalog to find out more about a database, you need to be familiar with the metadata functions. They save a great deal of time and typing when querying the metadata. Once you get the hang of these functions, the system catalog suddenly seems simple to use, as Robert Sheldon demonstrates in this article.
2016-03-28
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To finish this short series on extended properties a look at documenting sets of database objects
2011-04-05
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Continuing the short series on extended properties, this article explains how to turbocharge the creation of extended properties
2011-03-29
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In this second article of a short series we look at using the Extended Properties which you have added to a database
2011-03-22
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Part one of a four part series intent on demystifying and making more accessible SQL Server extended properties
2013-09-27 (first published: 2011-03-17)
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Generates a list of Server, Database, Table , Column Names and properties
2011-02-08 (first published: 2011-01-31)
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I came across a project which required a list of all columns within a server and thought I would post it here in case anyone else had this requirement.
2010-09-30 (first published: 2010-09-28)
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By Steve Jones
the standard blues– n. the dispiriting awareness that the twists and turns of your...
By Chris Yates
A brief introduction to the tool and its advantages for database migrations DevOps is...
In a previous blog post we went through how to build a Docker container...
I'm tracing activity on one database and would like to include the client_app_name in...
select Custno, Addr1, City, Res_Phone, Bus_Phone, Fax_Phone, Marine_Phone, Pager_Phone, Other_Phone, email1, email2 from customer...
I'm only processing 50,000 records not everything from the Table where there are 250,00...
I want to mark a transaction in the log as a recovery point. How do I do this in my code if I use the transaction, myTran?
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