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2001-12-17
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Are you familiar with using the Command object in ADO? If so, migrating to ADO.NET should be a snap.
2004-08-06 (first published: 2001-12-11)
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2001-12-10
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With Data Analyzer—the brand-new Office data analysis solution—you can quickly and easily view, analyze, and share business data, giving you the power to make better business decisions.
2001-11-30
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PASS Chat on SQL Server 2000 SP2 BETA Post Mortem this week! Your peers will be there - Don't miss the chance to get involved! PASS Chats are exclusively co-hosted with Microsoft TechNet.
2001-11-08
3,251 reads
Microsoft® SQL Server 2000 introduced several new features for querying database tables and receiving the results as an XML document. Web release 1 of SQLXML (XML for SQL Server) added Updategrams and XML Bulk Load functionality, as well as a host of other features to the SQL Server 2000 base.
2001-10-29
6,623 reads
Microsoft has the #1 OLAP product according to a new survey from Survey.com
2001-10-25
4,539 reads
2001-09-26
3,387 reads
SQL Server 2000 includes many new features that extend its capabilities as a high performance relational database system with a rich development environment. This article presents an overview of new product features including AWE support, new data types, new user-defined and built-in functions as well as enhancements in trigger functionality, indexing, collation, and property definition.
2001-08-03
3,578 reads
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2001-07-23
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For the Question of the day, I am going to go deep, but try to be more clear, as I feel like I didn't give enough info last time, leading folks to guess the wrong answer... :) For today's question: You’re troubleshooting a performance issue on a critical stored procedure. You notice that a previously efficient query now performs a full table scan instead of an index seek. Upon investigating, you find that an NVARCHAR parameter is being compared to a VARCHAR column in the WHERE clause. What is the most likely cause of the query plan regression?
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