After agreeing on our design goals we began looking for technologies to support them. It turned out that SQL Server™ Service Broker offered the asynchronous messaging support we needed and, since the message-queuing infrastructure is tightly integrated with the SQL Server database engine, our existing database backup, administration, and failover procedures could cover our messaging solution as well.
SQL Server provides a decent ROUND function to help you cut off numbers after the proper number of decimal points. But what if you don't know how many decimals the number will have? Author Rob Farley brings us a UDF he built to do just this.
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For a limited time Highwire Development is offering free site licenses for their RAAS Workflow Manager. This product can help you control your change processes and manage the workflow involved in deploying new scripts.
The use of XML is growing all the time and if you listen to the media, XML is a technology you cannot do without. New author Stephen Hirsch brings us a look at XML from more of a skeptic's point of view.
An in-depth, fully explained case study on how to design and create a data access layer for your .NET applications.
Create Linked Reports from within SQL Server Management Studio. BI Architect Bill Pearson examines another approach for using Linked Reports to provide multiple "versions" of a single-source report.
Stored procedures are a great way to encapsulate code and reuse it in many places in your application. But when you have a performance issue, how do you know which part of the stored procedure is giving you problems? Steve Jones takes a look at a few techniques for diving into stored procedures and identifying problem areas.
In this section of this series, I am going to demonstrate how to install SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1, to update the client components using command line options.
In this short demonstration, you'll learn how to use DDL database triggers to prevent changes to product and audit changes to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley and other change management requirements. Free registration required.
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