Basics of XML and SQL Server, Part 1: Streaming XML
This article demonstrates how to generate an XML stream from SQL Server using the 'FOR XML PATH' statement, and how to explore that XML stream interactively using an XSL transformation.
This article demonstrates how to generate an XML stream from SQL Server using the 'FOR XML PATH' statement, and how to explore that XML stream interactively using an XSL transformation.
Does data have gravity? Will the law affect how applications are built and deployed? Steve Jones has a few thoughts.
This article outlines three different tried and tested methods of obtaining access to databases in SQL Server 2005 where no database-level administrative access exists.
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How do you delete millions of rows with minimal impact to the business? This article gives you a way to accomplish the removal of old data.
Today we have an editorial originally published on Mar 13, 2007 that is being re-run as Steve is on vacation. This one looks at all the world's data.
A free day of SQL Server training in Vancouver, BC, Canada on Mar 17, 2012.
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Today Steve Jones talks about code scanning and the analysis that tools can do for us today.
The challenge is to transform monthly resource efforts into weekly actuals.
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I have this code on SQL Server 2022. What happens when it runs all at once?
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.Commission GO CREATE TABLE dbo.Commission (id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) CONSTRAINT CommissionPK PRIMARY KEY , salesperson VARCHAR(20) , commission VARCHAR(20) ) GO INSERT dbo.Commission ( salesperson, commission) VALUES ( 'Brian', 12 ), ( 'Brian', 'None' ) GOSee possible answers