Generate Test Data Quickly With Cross Joins
Need to rough up some bulk test data in a hurry? A carefully thought-out Cross Join could be the answer.
Need to rough up some bulk test data in a hurry? A carefully thought-out Cross Join could be the answer.
Want to take advantage of some of the benefits of using XML for data exchange, take a look at 'FOR XML' in SQL 2000.
This article by Andy Warren discusses both how to use the Public Role and how using Public may cause you more problems than it's worth. Great examples!
In this article, Brian Knight shows you how to convert data stored in DB2 to SQL Server using DTS.
A response from Great Plains Software on the use of the sa account in Dynamics software.
Were you aware that the act of populating a temporary table can cause system-wide bottlenecks on your server? Problems can occur both with SQL Server 6.5 and 7.0/2000 in different ways, and in this article Neil Boyle discusses how best to avoid them.
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This article by Leon Platt speaks to how you can avoid pulling your hair out when configuring connection pooling for IIS.
Using the sa account in development is just plain dumb. Here are some reasons why!
The type of datatypes that you use in your schema could impact the performance and the accuracy of your database.
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Let’s consider the following script that can be executed without any error on both SQL Sever and PostgreSQL. We define the table t1 in which we insert three records:
create table t1 (id int primary key, city varchar(50)); insert into t1 values (1, 'Rome'), (2, 'New York'), (3, NULL);If we execute the following query, how will the records be sorted in both environments?
select city from t1 order by city;See possible answers