SQL Server 6.5 Data Page Structure
This article presents the technical details of the page layout for data in SQL Server 6.5
Using Cursor Metadata to Dynamically Generate HTML Tables
The following stored procedure will demonstrate the use of cursor metadata. Using cursor metadata we can get information about an SQL statement and use that information to dynamically generate other code such as HTML or other stored procedures.
SQL Server 2000: .NET and the Death and Re-Birth o
In this month's article I will cover an aspect of SQL Server that always generates a great deal of, well, shall we say "discussion"—triggers. Love them or hate them, SQL Server 2000 will change they way you think about triggers and will probably alter the way you design your applications. Specifically, this month I will dive into cascading referential integrity (RI) and the new INSTEAD OF and AFTER trigger concepts in SQL Server 2000.
The DBA Dot Com Bust
The downturn in the economy has left quite a few technical people out of work. This ongoing article describes the experiences over the past two years of Steve Jones. Reader experiences are requested and the article will be updated weekly.
SQL Server 2000 Operations Guide
Are you responsible for keeping your organization's database systems up and running? Are you the one they call in the middle of the night if the database server is down? If so, the SQL Server 2000 Operations Guide is for you.
Review: SQL Server 2000 Database Design
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Using COM to Output Queries to a Text File
This article presents a method of outputting the results of a query as a tab delimited text file using COM.
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