Detaching and attaching a database is an advanced trick that can be useful in anything from transporting your database to recovering from a disaster.
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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.
A properly configured SQL Server can mean the difference between a sluggish server and one that runs well. There are a few pitfalls that you can experience in doing this.
This article by Leon Platt speaks to how you can avoid pulling your hair out when configuring connection pooling for IIS.
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I have a table in SQL Server 2022 that is an XML data type. I have an index on this column and want to create statistics using CREATE STATISTICS for some of the data in the column. What should I do?
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