One of the neatest T-SQL enhancements in SQL Server 2005 is the ROW_NUMBER() function. New author Charles Hawkins brings us an explanation of how you can use this function along with a Common Table Expression to remove duplicate data.
This whitepaper is intended to shed light on the issues affecting application performance in the wide area, and to give IT managers the knowledge required to design strategic enterprise application acceleration and deployment solutions
String manipulation is not one of the strong points of T-SQL, but there are some functions that can greatly assist you with searching and working with character values. New author Robert Davis brings us a look at PATINDEX, one of the search functions and also explains the differences between it and the often used CHARINDEX.
Should you use dynamic or static SQL in your SQL Server application? This is a hotly debated topic and Arthur Fuller brings his thoughts to this debate.
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SQL Server 2005 brings us a number of enhancements, but the most important to T-SQL developers may be the changes to error and exception handling. The addition of the TRY CATCH structure is an important change and Raj Vasant brings us a look at this enhancement.
This paper describes how SQL Server 2005 can be used to support row- and cell-level security (RLS/CLS). The examples provided in this white paper show how RLS and CLS can be used to meet classified database security requirements.
Replication is a great tool, but it has a number of restrictions on what you can do with replicated databases. Typically you cannot easily move a replicated database, but our own Andy Warren brings us a technique that can get around this.
This article presents an excerpt from the book, Applied Microsoft Analysis Services, by Teo Lachev. Learn how to author “smart” reports using Reporting Services (SSRS), Analysis Services (SSAS), and SQL Server CLR stored procedures. Get the reports demonstrated in this article by downloading the sample code.
With the release of SQL Server 2005, there have been many changes in the product, but probably none as dramatic as the changes to the ETL tool. Data Transformation Services has become SQL Server Integration Services, or SSIS. It has been completely redesigned with a whole new paradigm for developing data movements. Kathi Kellenberger brings us a short introduction to this new tool.
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I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to add two new columns for the StateProvince and Country. What code should I use? See possible answers