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An Answer For Spazecaze: A Reasonable Method To Implement User Defined Fields
Spazecaze discovered a February, 2006 discussion of order of operations and poses the following question in its comment area : So how would you go about designing a database that allows for end user...
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Database Programming: The String Concatenation XML Trick
Courtesy of my good friend and once-and-always colleague, Lance Larsen, who writes: I recently ran into this little trick. Joining two tables having a one-to-many relationship and stuffing a set of...
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Database Programming: The String Concatenation XML Trick Revisited (Or, Adam...
A find shared by one friend leads to correspondence from another.. The redoubtable Adam Machanic left a comment on The Technique That Lance Found which points out that special XML characters in a...
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Database Programming: The String Concatenation XML Trick, Sans Entitization
When last we checked in on The Technique That Lance Found , Adam had noted that the method entitizes XML special characters, a state of affairs which limits its utility somewhat. I tried to leverage...
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Database Programming: The String Concatenation XML Trick, Finalized
It's an especially Good Friday when we can close the loop on a technical conversation, and I believe that our modifications to The Technique That Lance Found , also discussed here and here , are...
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Two Pieces of Technical News from Kalen
Kalen Delaney has one of the most consistently informative SQL Server blogs in all of the Internets, and unless I miss my guess, it was also she who left the first of the very supportive comments I've...
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TOP, ORDER BY, and Non-Unique Columns
One of the comments I accidentally deleted earlier this afternoon posed the following question (paraphrased): I understand that TOP with ORDER BY makes no sense, but what about when I use different...
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Nullity: The Gift (of Nothingness) That Keeps On Giving
Almost three years after the post was originally published in October of 2005, Mark Johansen, author of A Sane Approach to Database Design (an approach I trust it's clear I favor) has left a terrific...
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Pond's Seventh Law Inspires a Question: Elegance Serving Randomness
Marc left a great question on a Pond's Laws post from July of 2006 : Hi, I have a flashcard system that randomly pulls a word from the database. I also have a testing module that allows a user to test...
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Scripts for “SQL Tricks: Insights from Microsoft IT”
UPDATED 22 November 2008 with Code Gallery URL. A ZIP file of the scripts from the SQL Tricks: Insights from Microsoft IT presentation I’m giving in Barcelona this week is available for download here ....
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TechEd Indexing Presentation Now Available on MSDN Code Gallery
Well, it took me long enough to figure out how to get this done, didn’t it? The good news is that I have a brand new tool in my arsenal.. the bad news is that I burned a bunch of precious rural...
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Database Versioning Demonstration Uploaded
Fulfilling my promise at TechEd , I’ve finally completed a self-directed demonstration of the database versioning techniques I first presented at last year’s TechEd and which was alluded to during this...
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Linchi Shea Makes an Interesting Point About Hints
I had a couple of extra minutes today and found this post on Linchi Shea’s blog ; I wanted to commend to all of you who’ve taken in the programming methodology and set-based thinking discussions in...
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Database Programming Contest: Adam Machanic Throws Down
Never let it be said that Adam Machanic lacks style.. Adam left a comment on yesterday’s revisiting of the XML String Concatenation Trick, announcing his T-SQL Challenge: Grouped String Concatenation...
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Database Programming: NULL and (NOT) IN Don’t Mix Well
Jens Suessmeyer is a Microsoft Consultant in Germany who frequently shares his useful techniques and insights both inside Microsoft and in the community at large. In his latest post , he answers a...
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As Spring Approaches, a SQL Blogger’s Thoughts Turn to Daylight and Baseball
As we progress towards the Ides of March, one of my best friends-who-I’ve-never-met, Jimmy May , notes our annual transition to Daylight Savings Time , in a post he generously concludes with a link to...
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What I Know Now: Ward’s Epistle to the N00bs
And I remember what she said to me How she swore that it never would end I remember how she held me, oh so tight Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then Bob Seger, Against the Wind All you need...
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Database Programming: The OPENROWSET Trick, Revisited
One of the most popular posts in the history of this little corner of the Internets is one from August, 2005, which describes a method for accessing stored procedure output in a SELECT statement which...
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Database Programming: The Time Zone Conversion Beast, Once Comatose, Returns...
Now go away, or we shall taunt you a second time. - John Cleese as a French knight (picture at left); Monty Python and the Holy Grail One of the reasons I started blogging over four years ago was my...
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Database Programming: What I’ve Learned About SQL Server 2008 (with a little...
With SQLRAP 2.5 out the door a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been free to turn to another project, SIPA, an internal effort to automate storage and retrieval of our group’s diverse intellectual property...
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