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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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One of the nice things about the Microsoft Connector for Oracle is that it...
By Steve Jones
I get asked questions by salespeople all the time. Usually this is because a...
By Steve Jones
jouska – a hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head –...
Hi folks I would like to get your views about partitioning a huge table...
Introduction to SQL Website Development What is SQL? Importance of SQL in web development...