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Scripts to use XML to insert and update rows in a SQL Server table
The following production code is what I used for inserting and updating database tables using XML as the input. These scripts are for processing data for any table to insert or update data. The support functions provided, retrieve the table schema with their data types, functions to deal with XML dates, primary keys of the table and what fields can be updated. The following article breaks down this process from beginning to end.
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Checking the Error Log II
What is the reason I should change my old code that uses xp_readerrorlog?
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