SQL Server 2000 made this possible with the use of OPENXML, which allows you to store data into a VARCHAR data type and pass it around. This became even easier in SQL Server 2005 with the advent ...

I created a copy of the database on the remote server and generated a SQL script to TRUNCATE all the tables in the copy database as shown in Listing 1. After a quick backup of the newly cleaned ...

Below is the script you can use to create a log table in the SQL Server database. CREATE TABLE [Log] ( [Id] int IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [Message] nvarchar(max) NULL, [MessageTemplate] nvarchar(max ...

"You can virtualize the external data through the SQL Server instance, so that it can be queried in place like any other table in SQL Server. This process minimizes the need for ETL processes for data ...

This strategy helps you manage interrelated tables in your database. Click the Start button and launch the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. Click the Server Name menu and choose your server ...

We use linked servers in SQL Server 2000 (I know...) to pump data from an AS400 running DB2 in to some tables in SQL Server to do analysis. It is realy painful as the source system is a Danish ERP ...

inserting and updating data into a table. To summarize the difference between the way SQL Server has traditionally taken locks and optimized locking, I'll defer to my MVP colleague Aaron Bertrand ...

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SQL Server allows you to define cascading referential ... To see how these constraints work, I’ll add some data to my tables.