SqlCredit - Part 5: Adding Card, Vendor, and Purchase, Plus Much Refac
As I built out the last pieces of the original table set (Card, Vendor, and Purchase), I found a number of pieces that needed to be fixed in the design.
2007-06-19
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Miscellaneous
SqlCredit - Part 4: Schema and Procedure Security
In this month’s installment, we will add security to the existing code and add new unit tests to prove that security.
2007-06-15
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SqlCredit - Part 3: Schema/Proc Updates and Automated Unit Testing
In this month’s installment, we will discuss updates based on feedback from part 2 as well as introduce automated unit testing.
2007-06-14
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SqlCredit - Part 2: Creating the Database, Tables, CRUD Procedures
Continuing with this series on building a database system
2007-06-13
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Part 1: Introduction, Business Problem, and Initial Design
The purpose of the SqlCredit series is to demonstrate the database design and development portion of a development project. We will build a complete, functioning, tested credit card database to illustrate the complete software development lifecycle.
2007-06-12
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XML Workshop II - Reading values from XML variables
Continuing with his series on XML in SQL Server 2005, Jacob Sebastian brings us a number of examples on how to work with XML in different situations with SQL Server 2005.
2007-06-06
21,536 reads
Change DTS package owner
This simple script is useful if you have a lot of scripts owned by developers, and you want to re-assign them all in one go to SA or any other login. Note the section which produces a rollback if you have any problems after the re-assign
2007-09-27 (first published: 2007-06-01)
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Upload multiple XML files to an XML data type column
Learn how to upload multiple XML files to an SQL Server 2005 database XML data type column.
2007-05-29
3,285 reads
Row counts for all tables in a database
I saw a script on here that outputs commands to the messages pane in Query Analyser. When run, these scripts output row counts for all your tables. This script does the same thing, but in one step.Tested on SQL Server 2000.
2007-09-25 (first published: 2007-05-24)
757 reads
Record Count for Tables
This script was created for an Oracle to SQL 2005 migration. It creates a table, and then populates it with the record counts for each table in a given schema. (You will need to replace the xxxx text with your schema name for it to work). I prefer populating a table with this data, then […]
2007-09-24 (first published: 2007-05-24)
1,020 reads
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