An Alternative Way To Get the Table's Rowcount
This article examines an alternative method for finding the rowcount of a table besides using a select count(*)
2001-10-05
4,795 reads
Articles
COM+ Application Guidelines for Visual Basic Development
This 80-page reference article presents guidelines for designing, building, and deploying COM+ applications, with an emphasis on Visual Basic.
2001-10-05
879 reads
Introduction to SQL-DMO
SQL-DMO is a pretty cool way of working with SQL Server. Never tried it? Sean Burke offers a very readable introduction to how it works.
2001-10-04
14,725 reads
More on Returning a Subset of a Recordset
Last week's tip created quite a discussion on different techniques for returning a subset of a recordset.
Here are a few of the alternative solutions offered.
2001-10-03
8,880 reads
Reattaching Databases - Some Code AND a Contest - Follow Up!
Early in September Andy posted an article that explained how to use DMO to reattach a lot of MDF's in a hurry AND challenged our readers to accomplish the same task in T-SQL. Today we announce the winning solution!
2001-10-02
5,671 reads
Update: Guide to Clustering Windows 2000 and SQL Server 2000
This is an update to a recent article that provides a step-by-step guide to clustering SQL Server 2000 and Windows 2000.
2001-10-02
513 reads
Pre-Sliced Peanut Butter
Pre-sliced peanut butter is on its way to U.S. store shelves in test markets - fact or fiction??
2001-10-02
758 reads
SQL Spy Releases as OpenSource
Download the source code today for a great method for SQL Server live monitoring.
2001-10-01
53 reads
Telemarketing Revenge
If you are like me, you probably get lots of telemarketing calls. Here's a good one to use the next time you get called by a phone company.
2001-10-01
2,723 reads
Some Undocumented Stored Procedures
This article examines some of the undocumented stored procedures that exist in SQL Server 7.0
2001-09-28
7,774 reads
Blogs
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Forums
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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