The FOR XML clause in SQL Server causes a lot of difficulty, mainly because it is rather poorly explained in Books-on-Line. We challenged Bob Sheldon to make it seem simple. Here is his sublime response.
Roll Your Own Fuzzy Match / Grouping (Jaro Winkler) - T-SQL
SQLSaturday #17 will be held Aug 1, 2009 in Baton Rouge, LA. Read more about it.
This white paper describes the FILESTREAM feature of SQL Server 2008, which allows storage of and efficient access to BLOB data using a combination of SQL Server 2008 and the NTFS file system. It covers choices for BLOB storage, configuring Windows and SQL Server for using FILESTREAM data, considerations for combining FILESTREAM with other features, and implementation details such as partitioning and performance.
When it comes to securing a system, it's important to understand how it might be attacked. That's what surface area is all about. The surface area is the parts of the system which are exposed. For instance, in the case of a default instance of...
Who do you blame when software fails? Hopefully you don't hire a lawyer before you do. Steve Jones talks about liability and software.
Who do you blame when software fails? Hopefully you don't hire a lawyer before you do. Steve Jones talks about liability and software.
Who do you blame when software fails? Hopefully you don't hire a lawyer before you do. Steve Jones talks about liability and software.
Building random numbers can be challenging for people working in T-SQL. New author Chris Nowicki brings a solution he used to get a random number assigned to each row of a result set.
Are user groups dying out in the age of the Internet? It seemed that way for awhile, but Brad McGehee gives some reasons why you should think about attending a meeting.
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Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes...
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This week has training on AI – Cyber security experts – Omar Santos and...
Following on from my previous post on building The Burrito Bot, I want to...
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When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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