SQL Server 2000 added support for XML documents in a few ways. However the support was a little kludgy as it had not been designed into the product from the beginning, but added on later. New author Wayne Fillis brings us some C++ code and a new way to easily retrieve well formed XML documents from your SQL Server.
2004-11-10
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Ralph Kimball, founder of The Kimbaal Group, shares some thoughts on data with PASS.
2004-11-08
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This Function and the query will generate the script for Create / Drop/ Create Constraint based on a Naming Convention . More changes can be done on this. This is very simple
2004-11-18 (first published: 2004-11-05)
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A better version of the :"Finding first/last day of month by a date"
2004-11-17 (first published: 2004-11-04)
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Simple job script to cycle the SQL Log ever 24 hoursThe job is set to disabled as you should review any script that creates a job before enabling it on your server.
2006-03-06 (first published: 2004-10-29)
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Simple script (alterable as needed) to verify existence of a file and execute a job if the return result = 1 (true)
2004-12-08 (first published: 2004-10-29)
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Is quite a joke, but useful, I guess, and, of course, improvable. It need to use two random number generator (inclued) published some weeks ago here.Some fieldtype needs to be generating-improved (e.g. images) ... I wait suggestions and improvements
2004-12-06 (first published: 2004-10-28)
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This script uses two undocumented stored procedures that retrieve all tables in the database in which it is run and lists the data and index sizes, the sum of these sizes, and the table's size percentage of the entire database. The results are presented in descending order of the sum of the data and index […]
2004-11-24 (first published: 2004-10-25)
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SQL Server excels at storing and retrieving data, especially in the area of reporting on this data. Chris Cathers has come up with a great solution for gathering and reporting on the filesystem on his network, enabling him to help out his local sysadmins.
2004-10-25
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You can use features in Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 Service Pack (SP) 1 to work more efficiently with image objects and other data. Learn how to use BLOB data types to work with data stored in a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database from an InfoPath form. InfoPath 2003 provides a robust and rich interface to store and access data in SQL Server databases. Learn about best practices for integrating SQL Server databases and InfoPath form data, with an illustrative example.
2004-10-22
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By Ed Elliott
Running tSQLt unit tests is great from Visual Studio but my development workflow...
By James Serra
I remember a meeting where a client’s CEO leaned in and asked me, “So,...
By Brian Kelley
If you want to learn better, pause more in your learning to intentionally review.
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I run this code to create a table:
When I check the length, I get these results:
A table name is limited to 128 characters. How does this work?