A Genetic Algorithm Sample in T-SQL

Bill Talada brings us an interesting use of T-SQL. Imagine you have a robot moving around a grid and it needs to complete various actions. How do you find the smart robots across many generations?

Optimising “Ends With” searches with REVERSE

A simple way to improve performance for queries that use the LIKE operator. Ben Seaman shows how to deal with searches that look at the end of a piece of text

T-SQL

T-SQL Output Clause

Dynamic SQL

Temporary objects

The SQL of Scrabble and Rapping

In which Phil decides to use a table consisting of all the common words in English to explore ways of cheating at Scrabble and writing doggerel using SQL Server. He then issues a SQL challenge.

Using T-SQL to Transform XML Data to a Relational Format

More and more data is being stored or transmitted in an XML format. New author Nasir Mirza brings us an article that examines how to transform a number of XML structures into different relational formats for storage in SQL Server.

Implementing Most Recently Used Lookups

This script will adapt ordering of look-up lists by foreign key usage.

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