Delimited lists aren't always good idea, but if you need one, what's a good way to do it? Ever use the object_name functio or query syscomments? Or know why you might want to? These couple tips might save you some time one day.
2004-09-21
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2004-09-17
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2004-09-15
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Win XP Pro limits users to one web site, but developers often need to be able to switch between sites when coding locally. This free tool let's you easily do just that. Why an article on an IIS tool on a SQL site? We think it might be useful to you or someone on your team, and lots of SQL developers use IIS as well.
2004-09-03
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Hurricane Charlie had a pretty substantial impact on residents and businesses in Central Florida. Andy lives in the Orlando area and wrote up some notes on the various challenges he ran into it. Out of it you might find a couple things worth thinking about adding into your DR plan.
2004-08-24
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This short article shows you how to use SQL-DMO to enable or disable all the triggers in a database.
2004-08-12 (first published: 2001-05-18)
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What do your programmers do with nulls? Do they know nullif, isnull, what about the powerful coalesce function? Do they think DBA's look at the world differently? Why, it's all code isn't it?
2004-07-29
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Know anything about bowling? Or writing hard core TSQL? Or test driven development? Even if you don't, this might be a good way to build those skills. Write a stored procedure that can score a bowling game and you might win one of our books and a shirt!
2004-07-22
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Andy discusses one of the questions he uses to screen senior developer candidates. While the question itself is interesting, we think it will be more interesting to see how many of you agree with one of his positions - that developers think of program code and sql code as different animals, especially when it comes to debugging.
2004-07-09
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In this follow up Andy looks into some of the options available when you're dealing with situations where you're joining a case sensitive column to a case insensitive column. We think after reading this you'll be ready to just say no!
2004-06-22
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By Steve Jones
Here are the slides from my talk today: CI in Azure DevOps If you...
By Steve Jones
I got asked this question recently: I constantly see PostgreSQL on Microsoft slides, email,...
By Steve Jones
hickering – n. the habit of falling hard for whatever pretty new acquaintance happens...
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