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XML Schema Collections: the XML accelerator pedal
While some of us may disagree, I think XML is a great method of moving small-to-medium sized data sets into SQL Server.Because of XML's generality, it can be used by pretty much any client application...
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When designing new database structures, I feel it's really important to make sure that the data goes into the new tables as cleanly as possible. Doing this early on helps prevent bugs from creeping...
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It's a common practice to use scalar variables, table variables, and temporary tables when developing a database application. If these transient objects contain (or are) character fields, which...
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Efficiently indexing long character strings
Sometimes we face the requirement to search a table for a specific string value in a column, where the values are very long. The default answer is to create an index, but we must remember that index...
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