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Steve Jones has a pre-holiday look at the new Windows Phone 7 platform, with some thoughts on how it was designed.
Steve Jones has a pre-holiday look at the new Windows Phone 7 platform, with some thoughts on how it was designed.
SQL Server 2008 R2 Data-Tier Applications make database development, deployment and management much easier. When you create and build a Data Tier Application, it creates a single, self-contained unit of deployment called a DAC package. Arshad Ali shows you how to deploy the created DAC package and discusses the different methods of deployment.
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Andy discusses the need to consider personnel when you are planning for things to go wrong.
My client wants to standardize address information for existing and future addresses collected for their customers, particularly the street suffixes. The application used to enter and collect address information has the street suffix separated from the address field, but it is a textbox instead of a drop down list therefore things are not standardized. I know there are some options out there to standarize data, but they would like a less expensive alternative. Are there any functions in SQL Server that I can use to standardized data?
Database refactoring is a difficult proposition at the best of times, but is rendered more or less impossible if the database is close-coupled to the application's other components. In a guest editorial, Mladen Prajdic stresses the importance of a native SQL Server abstraction layer.
Today we have an editorial reprint from Aug 23, 2005 as Steve is on vacation. Does security through obscurity work? Steve Jones thinks it can help in a limited sense, providing another layer of protection.
Recently when I created a SQL Server Agent job to execute a SSIS package, it failed with the message "Non-SysAdmins have been denied permission to run DTS Execution job steps without a proxy account.". What is this exception about? What causes it and how do I resolve it?
Continuing on with his testing series for T-SQL code, MVP Andy Leonard looks at deployment here.
This Friday Steve Jones asks if you think that your job could be done with smaller devices. Is there a chance that a mobile phone, a tablet or something else could help you be more productive?
One of the most distinguishing characteristics of Control Flow Script Task available in SQL Server 2008 Integration Services is its flexibility. This article demonstrates some of these capabilities by describing an approach that employs the Script Task to query data residing in an Active Directory domain database.
If you've ever loaded a 2 GB CSV into pandas just to run a...
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Recently I ran across some code that used a lot of QUOTENAME() calls. A...
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We create the following table and then insert some records in it:
create table t1 ( id int primary key, category char(1) not null, product varchar(50) ); insert into t1 values (1, 'A', 'Product 1'), (2, 'A', 'Product 2'), (3, 'A', 'Product 3'), (4, 'B', 'Product 4'), (5, 'B', 'Product 5');What happens if we execute the following query in both Sql Server and PostgreSQL?
select id,
category,
string_agg(product, ';')
over (partition by category order by id
rows between unbounded preceding and unbounded following) as stragg
from t1; See possible answers