2010-09-17
3,086 reads
T-SQL
Minesweeper in T-SQL
Whatever happened to the idea that programming in TSQL can be fun? A Simple-Talk reader contributes an article to remind us all that there is more to TSQL than wrestling with DMVs and pummelling recalcitrant correlated subqueries.
2010-09-17
5,029 reads
Identifying and Eliminating the Dreaded Cartesian Product
Cartesian Products usually don't provide useful information and often result in mistakes that can hurt your database developer career. Learn to spot Cartesian Joins and banish them from your SELECT queries forever.
2010-09-10
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2010-09-08
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2010-09-06
4,051 reads
Retreive the Schema of a Stored Procedure or Function
This script shows you code that retrives schema of a routine (Stored procedure or a function).
2010-09-09 (first published: 2010-09-04)
1,982 reads
2010-09-01
3,850 reads
2010-08-31
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2010-08-27
4,312 reads
Make string columns unicode compliant
Generates scripts to make text, ntext, varchar and char columns nvarchar/nchar
2010-08-30 (first published: 2010-08-26)
1,310 reads
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Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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