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[September 2006]

Accessing Web Services in SQL Server 2005
Microsoft’s Patrick Conlan explains a design philosophy in SQL Server 2005.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[September 2006]

The Disappearance of SQL Server Express
Microsoft’s Richard Waymire helps a reader locate an instance of SQL Server 2005 Express.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[September 2006]

Transferring SQL Server Registration Information Between Machines
Microsoft’s Richard Waymire gives a method for moving server registration information between client machines.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[August 2006]

Easy Reading: See Backup Date and Time
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.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[August 2006]

Optimizing Distributed Transactions
Microsoft’s Patrick Conlan gives tips on how to maintain good performance when executing distributed queries between SQL Server instances.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[July 2006]

Using msdb Backup Tables
Microsoft’s Gert Drapers explains techniques for getting valuable information from SQL Server’s msdb backup tables.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[June 2006]

Transferring Identity Field Values
Microsoft’s Vaquar Pirzada explains how to use the sp_scriptdynamicupdproc stored procedure to include Identity field values in transactional replication.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[June 2006]

Performing Very Large Set Updates
Microsoft’s Vaquar Pirzada gives you options for performing very large set updates in SQL Server 2000.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[April 2006]

TIP: Executing Statements in a User Database
Microsoft’s Gert Drapers explains how to execute statements in the context of a user database.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[March 2006]

Using the CLR with C# DLLs
Microsoft’s Patrick Conlan explains how C# DLLs will work with the CLR in SQL Server 2005.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[March 2006]

What’s a Snapshot?
Microsoft’s Patrick Conlan gives a brief explanation of database snapshots.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[March 2006]

How Not to Use USE
Microsoft’s Gert Drapers provides a script for retrieving table information.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[February 2006]

Automatic Truncation of Long Parameter Values
Microsoft's Richard Waymire explains a truncating feature in SQL Server 2000.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[February 2006]

Using SQL-DMO to Check Code Syntax
Microsoft's Gert Drapers and Patrick Conlan provide a couple of ways you can use SQL-DMO to check code syntax.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[February 2006]

Finding an Individual Log File
Microsoft's Gert Drapers provides statements for finding an individual database log file.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[December 20, 2005]

Updating an Oracle Trigger for SQL Server 2000
Microsoft's Patrick Conlan explains how to make an Oracle trigger work in SQL Server 2000.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[December 2005]

Rotating a SQL Server Table
Microsoft's Patrick Conlan offers two ways to rotate a table in SQL Server.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[December 2005]

Using T-SQL to Check Database Memory
Microsoft’s Gert Drapers shows how to use T-SQL to check a database’s memory usage.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[October 2005]

Simple But Slow: Performance-Tuning Tips for an Ailing Query
Microsoft's Patrick Conlan comes up with a hatful of tricks to performance-tune a simple query that won't perform.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[July 2005]

Loading Text Into Analysis Services
Microsoft's Thierry D'hers describes the steps for getting a string to show up in analysis cubes.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

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