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Limit Groups by Number Using Transact-SQL or MS Access

You can easily limit or group a recordset, but doing both to the same recordset takes a bit of hand coding. Find out how both SQL Server and MS Access can handle the task.

10+ tips for working smarter with SQL

The sharper your SQL skills become, the more robust and error-free your solutions will be. Here are a dozen practical tips to get you started

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Generating Insert Statements

This article from new author Oleg Netchaev describes the cursor-less script used to generate insert statements. This allows you to efficiently and easily add data generation statements to your project deployments.

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CRUD generator

Script to generate create, read, update, and delete scripts for a table.

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The Automated DBA: Batch Database File Grower - SQL2000 ReportOnly Ver

Grows all of the data files in a database based on the greater of a fixed minimum free space amount or a dynamic percentage of the size of the largest table in the filegroup.