Is it better to use NOT IN() or <> in a T-SQL query? Ken Johnson had the question put to him and decided to investigate them both. Read about how these two functions perform.
The next installment of Jacob Sebastian's great series on XML looks at how a .NET application might consume XML data returned from SQL Server.
The Data Generator Source is now available for SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008. This component needs little explanation. It generates random integer (DT_I4) and string (DT_WSTR) data and places them in the pipeline.
When designing a database, we sometimes come across situations where there are multiple types of entities that we are modeling, but we'd like them to all have certain attributes or relations in common. Using "sub-type" tables is a simple way to implement table inheritance in SQL Server.
Scaling out is hard to do with SQL Server, but why doesn't Microsoft build a better solution?
Scaling out is hard to do with SQL Server, but why doesn't Microsoft build a better solution?
Scaling out is hard to do with SQL Server, but why doesn't Microsoft build a better solution?
This article will give a basic introduction of Custom Report Item in SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services.
How much of a contract for servicing SQL Server should we expect? Has Microsoft broken an implied contract with us?
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