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Accessing Web Services in SQL Server 2005

By Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team, 08/23/2006

Microsoft’s Patrick Conlan explains a design philosophy in SQL Server 2005.

The Disappearance of SQL Server Express

By Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team, 08/23/2006

Microsoft’s Richard Waymire helps a reader locate an instance of SQL Server 2005 Express.

Transferring SQL Server Registration Information Between Machines

By Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team, 08/23/2006

Microsoft’s Richard Waymire gives a method for moving server registration information between client machines.

Easy Reading: See Backup Date and Time

By Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team, 07/20/2006

Microsoft’s Gert Drapers provides a script that creates backup filenames that display the date and time of the backup, complete with leading zeros for easy reading.

Optimizing Distributed Transactions

By Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team, 07/20/2006

Microsoft’s Patrick Conlan gives tips on how to maintain good performance when executing distributed queries between SQL Server instances.

Using msdb Backup Tables

By Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team, 06/22/2006

Microsoft’s Gert Drapers explains techniques for getting valuable information from SQL Server’s msdb backup tables.

Transferring Identity Field Values

By Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team, 05/23/2006

Microsoft’s Vaquar Pirzada explains how to use the sp_scriptdynamicupdproc stored procedure to include Identity field values in transactional replication.

Performing Very Large Set Updates

By Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team, 05/23/2006

Microsoft’s Vaquar Pirzada gives you options for performing very large set updates in SQL Server 2000.

TIP: Executing Statements in a User Database

By Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team, 03/22/2006

Microsoft’s Gert Drapers explains how to execute statements in the context of a user database.

Using the CLR with C# DLLs

By Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team, 02/22/2006

Microsoft’s Patrick Conlan explains how C# DLLs will work with the CLR in SQL Server 2005.

What’s a Snapshot?

By Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team, 02/22/2006

Microsoft’s Patrick Conlan gives a brief explanation of database snapshots.

How Not to Use USE

By Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team, 02/22/2006

Microsoft’s Gert Drapers provides a script for retrieving table information.

Automatic Truncation of Long Parameter Values

By Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team, 01/25/2006

Microsoft's Richard Waymire explains a truncating feature in SQL Server 2000.

Using SQL-DMO to Check Code Syntax

By Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team, 01/25/2006

Microsoft's Gert Drapers and Patrick Conlan provide a couple of ways you can use SQL-DMO to check code syntax.

Finding an Individual Log File

By Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team, 01/25/2006

Microsoft's Gert Drapers provides statements for finding an individual database log file.

Updating an Oracle Trigger for SQL Server 2000

By Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team, 12/20/2005

Microsoft's Patrick Conlan explains how to make an Oracle trigger work in SQL Server 2000.

Rotating a SQL Server Table

By Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team, 11/02/2005

Microsoft's Patrick Conlan offers two ways to rotate a table in SQL Server.

Using T-SQL to Check Database Memory

By Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team, 11/02/2005

Microsoft’s Gert Drapers shows how to use T-SQL to check a database’s memory usage.

Simple But Slow: Performance-Tuning Tips for an Ailing Query

By Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team, 09/20/2005

Microsoft's Patrick Conlan comes up with a hatful of tricks to performance-tune a simple query that won't perform.

Loading Text Into Analysis Services

By Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team, 06/22/2005

Microsoft's Thierry D'hers describes the steps for getting a string to show up in analysis cubes.



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