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Blogging Best Practices Pluralsight Online Course Based on My Experience

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, May 19, 2013
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I have been blogging for more than 6.5years and I have so far written over 2500 articles on this blog and every blog has been journey itself. Over six years I have not missed any single blog and no ma...

SQL SERVER Weekly Series Memory Lane #029

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, May 18, 2013
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Here is the list of selected articles of SQLAuthority.com across all these years. Instead of just listing all the articles I have selected a few of my most favorite articles and have listed them here ...

SQL SERVER Solution to Puzzle REPLICATE over 8000 Characters

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, May 17, 2013
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Earlier this week, I asked a puzzle about how REPLICATE works with 8000 and over 8000 characters. I strongly suggest to read the original blog post where I have described the problem in detailSQL SERV...

SQLoogle - Part 1 of 2

The Code Project Latest Articles, May 16, 2013
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Google your SQL....

SQLAuthority News 2500 Blog Posts, 2 Million Views per month, 62 Million Total Views

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, May 16, 2013
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Today, I am very happy as the journey I started almost 6.5 years ago has very important milestone. I have stopped blogging about my milestone for a long time as I believe that was just taking up the s...

SQL SERVER SQL Puzzle of SET ANSI_NULL Win USD 50 worth Amazon Gift Cards and Bubble Copter R/C

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, May 15, 2013
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We all love puzzles and here is interesting puzzle which you can play with me and winAmazon Gift Cards and Bubble Copter R/C. The contest for Amazon Gift Card is open worldwide, however, Bubble Copter...

SQL SERVER How to use xp_sscanf in Real World Scenario?

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, May 14, 2013
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I need your help. I recently came across extended stored procedure xp_sscanf. After reading a lot about it and searching online, I could not figure out how and where in real world, I will use this fun...

SQL SERVER Puzzle and Answer REPLICATE over 8000 Characters

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, May 13, 2013
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It has been along time since we have played a puzzle over this blog. This Monday, let us play a quick puzzle. SQL Server have REPLICATE function which will replicate the string passed as many as times...

SQL SERVER Interesting Observation of CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL and CONCAT in SQL Server 2012 onwards

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, May 12, 2013
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Have you ever worked withCONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL earlier in your career? If yes, you will find this post very interesting. If you have not worked with this function before I think this post will teach...

SQL SERVER Weekly Series Memory Lane #028

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, May 11, 2013
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Here is the list of selected articles of SQLAuthority.com across all these years. Instead of just listing all the articles I have selected a few of my most favorite articles and have listed them here ...

SQL SERVER Adding Column Defaulting to Current Datetime in Table

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, May 10, 2013
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Presenting a technical session is a greatest experience one can have and I enjoy doing the same. While I write this blog post, I am presenting at Great Indian Developer Summit in India. The event is a...

SQL SERVER A New Approach to Scale .NET Applications

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, May 9, 2013
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In a previous article, I wrote about scale-up vs. scale-out architectures using SQL Server and NuoDB as examples. NuoDB recently announced the general availability of their latest product release, 1.1...

SQL SERVER RESEED Identity Column in Database Table Rest Table Identity Value SQL in Sixty Seconds #051

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, May 8, 2013
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This is the 51th episode of SQL in Sixty Seconds Video and we will see in this episode how to RESEED identity of the table column. Identity column is every increasing (or decreasing) value based on th...

ODBC Connector for MongoDB

The MongoDB NoSQL Database Blog, May 7, 2013
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This is a guest post by NYU Information Systems (MSIS) Graduate students Kyle Galloway, Pravish Sood and Dylan Kelemen.We are pleased to announce the Mongo-ODBC project. As NYU MSIS students in Couran...

Check Digit Vertical and Horizontal

The Code Project Latest Articles, May 7, 2013
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This article explains how to calculate the Check Digit Vertical (CDV) and Horizontal (CDH) by Sql Server....

Visual Studio Visualizer: Part 2 - Entity Framework

The Code Project Latest Articles, May 7, 2013
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This project creates a Visual Studio visualizer for entity framework queries, view edit and run the generated SQL....

SQLAuthority News Sharding or No Sharding of Database Working on my Weekend Project

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, May 7, 2013
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Recently I came across situation where database sharding was once again a suggested solution by architectures. Everytime I hear the word sharding I remember my earlier article about NuoDB onShard No M...

Firewall settings for SQL Server

Sahil Malik - blah.winsmarts.com, May 6, 2013
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SharePoint Training: more information A while ago, I had blogged a quick f...

SQL SERVER Azure SQL Databases Backup Made Easy with SQLBackupAndFTP

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, May 6, 2013
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Azure SQL database backup used to be a difficult task. Not any more. With SQLBackupAndFTP with Azureit became trivial. Heres what you basically need to do: Once SQLBackupAndFTP with Azure is installed...

Using IntelliTrace With Entity Framework In Visual Studio 2012

peterkellner.net, May 6, 2013
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This is not a big deal, but I have recently bumped into several people that did not know about it so I thought Id do a blog post just to show what it is and how is just trivial to use for useful stuff...

SQL SERVER sys.dm_xe_map_values Reasons for Statement Recompilation

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, May 5, 2013
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Sometime I feel I know a lot about SQL Server and very next moment, I realize that honestly I do not know much about this product. Earlier today, I had similar moments. I was playing with few DMVs and...

SQL SERVER Weekly Series Memory Lane #027

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, May 4, 2013
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Here is the list of selected articles of SQLAuthority.com across all these years. Instead of just listing all the articles I have selected a few of my most favorite articles and have listed them here ...

MySQL Compare: The Manual That Time Forgot, Part 1

Simple Talk, May 3, 2013
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Although SQL Compare, for SQL Server, is one of Red Gate's best-known products, there are also 'sister' tools that allow you to compare and synchronise MySQL and Oracle databases. MySQL Compare was ...

String Data Types and Functions - SQL Server (2000, 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012)

The Code Project Latest Articles, May 3, 2013
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SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 Character String Data Types and Functions with Sample SQL Statements. Quick reference, Data Type Tables, Function Tables...

Know thy indexes

Sahil Malik - blah.winsmarts.com, May 3, 2013
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SharePoint Training: more information Okay so heres another bak2basics kin...

SQL SERVER DELETE From SELECT Statement Using JOIN in DELETE Statement Multiple Tables in DELETE Statement

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, May 3, 2013
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This blog post is inspired from my earlier blog post of UPDATE From SELECT Statement Using JOIN in UPDATE Statement Multiple Tables in Update Statement. In the blog post I discussed about how we can...

SQLAuthority News Presenting 3 Technical Sessions at Great Indian Developer Summit May 7, 2013 Bangalore

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, May 2, 2013
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I will be presenting once again 3 Technical Sessions on SQL Server and Performance Tuning at Great Indian Developer Summit on May 7, 2013. If you are going to attend the event, you do not want to miss...

SQLAuthority News Learn Fundamentals of MySQL Online Pluralsight Course

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, May 1, 2013
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Here are few of the question I often receive - Do you know anything besides SQL Server? So how does it feel when the only thing which you know is SQL Server? Have you worked in the past with any other...

The MEAN Stack: MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS and Node.js

The MongoDB NoSQL Database Blog, April 30, 2013
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This is a guest post from Valeri Karpov, a MongoDB Hacker and co-founder of the Ascot Project.A few weeks ago, a friend of mine asked me for help with PostgreSQL. As someone who’s been blissfull...

SQL SERVER UPDATE From SELECT Statement Using JOIN in UPDATE Statement Multiple Tables in Update Statement

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, April 30, 2013
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This is one of the most interesting questions I keep on getting on this email and I find that not everyone knows about it. In recent times I have seen a developer writing a cursor to update a table. W...

Backups as a Cloud Service - an Alternative View

Simple Talk, April 29, 2013
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In most databases, very small percentage of data changes between SQL Server backups. We tolerate this because it keeps things simple, and we have grown used to cheap storage and fast networks. To expl...

Uploading Data to Windows Azure SQL Database

Simple Talk, April 29, 2013
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One way of getting the advantages of the Cloud without having to migrate the entire database is to just maintain a copy of the data that needs to be accessible to internet-based users in Windows Azur...

Getting number of users online and other functionalities

The Code Project Latest Articles, April 29, 2013
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Using PHP and MySQL to get if a user is online, the number of users currently online, the highest online ever, the number of users online today, and the Last Seen time of a user....

ORM Release History : Q1 2013 SP1 (version 2013.1.418.2)

Telerik News RSS Feed, April 29, 2013
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What's new in Telerik OpenAccess ORM Q1 2013 SP1 Enhancements Update Database from Model: Creation of missing schemas - The automated DLL scripts generation now include creation of new schemas, de...

SQL SERVER Disable All the Foreign Key Constraint in Database Enable All the Foreign Key Constraint in Database

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, April 29, 2013
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Here is an email I receivedduring the weekend. “Hi Pinal, I am a senior tester in the leading organization and we have two different environments 1) Testing 2) Production. As a part of the testing we ...

SQLAuthority News Download PowerPivot or PowerView enabled Workbook Optimizer Download SQL Server Connector for Apache Hadoop

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, April 28, 2013
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Earlier this week Microsoft have released two very interesting downloads which got my attention. Haddop, PowerPivot and PowerView all three are not directly related to traditional RDBMS but their impo...

SQL SERVER Weekly Series Memory Lane #026

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, April 27, 2013
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Here is the list of selected articles of SQLAuthority.com across all these years. Instead of just listing all the articles I have selected a few of my most favorite articles and have listed them here ...

SQL SERVER UNION ALL and UNION are Different Operation

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, April 26, 2013
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I have previously written about the difference between UNION ALL and UNION multiple times over this blog but it seems like this question never gets old and I keep on getting the question again and aga...

SQL SERVER Return Specific Row to at the Bottom of the Resultset T-SQL Script Part 2

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, April 25, 2013
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“How do I return a few of my resultset rows at the bottom of the entire resultset?” I was previously asked this question and my response was that we can do this by using the CASE statement in the ORDE...

SQL Server StringPadding (String function)

The Code Project Latest Articles, April 24, 2013
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Custom StringPadding functions for SQL Server...

Create an SQL Server Database Using C#

The Code Project Latest Articles, April 24, 2013
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Create a SQL Server database using C#....

New versions of dotConnect ADO.NET Providers and LinqConnect 4.2 with LINQPad Integration and Entity Developer 5.5

ASP.NET Announcements, April 24, 2013
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Devart Team is glad to present new versions of dotConnect ADO.NET data providers and LinqConnect 4.2. dotConnect Data Providers http://www.devart.com/news/2013/dotconnects76.html for Oracle, MySQL, P...

SQL SERVER Interview Questions and Answers Sample Chapter Free Download SQL in Sixty Seconds #050

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, April 24, 2013
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This journey of SQL in Sixty Seconds we started almost a year ago and today we are at very interesting milestone where I am recording 50thepisode. Thought I wanted to keep the length of each video to ...

SQL SERVER Return Specific Row to at the Bottom of the Resultset T-SQL Script

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, April 23, 2013
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“How do I return a few of my resultset rows at the bottom of the entire resulset?” This is avery simple question – let me explain this with following diagram. In this following diagram you can notice ...

Free Agile Tracker Tool Download

ASP.NET Announcements, April 22, 2013
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Looking for a free agile & scrum tool that gives you more? Agile, Scrum, Kanban Code Review Issue & Bug Tracking Project Tracking  Integrated testing management Works with GitHub, Subver...

SQLAuthority News Webinar SQL Server Locking and Concurrency by Rick Morelan

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, April 22, 2013
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My book co-author Rick Morelan is giving away SQL Queries Book and DVD set (valued at over $200)in his next webinar. SQL Server is known for handing many requests at once and updating as new data come...

SQL SERVER Discussion Scale-up vs Scale-out Architectures

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, April 22, 2013
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Note: NuoDBis a complete re-think of relational databases with innovative support for the Clouds dynamic, asynchronous nature. DownloadNuoDBto experience the Scaling Out scenario discussed in this blo...

SQLAuthority News Women in SQL Youngest SQL Speaker Bangalore SQL User Group Event on April 20, 2013

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, April 21, 2013
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It was a great day today as at a SQL Bangalore User Group we had an event “Women in SQL” day. This event was one of the milestone event as in India there was no UG in my knowledge had done an event wh...

SQL SERVER Weekly Series Memory Lane #025

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, April 20, 2013
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Here is the list of selected articles of SQLAuthority.com across all these years. Instead of just listing all the articles I have selected a few of my most favorite articles and have listed them here ...

Developing a Report Definition Customization Extension for Multi-Language Reports

Simple Talk, April 19, 2013
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When you need to present the same SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) report in eight or more different languages, or in different formats for different recipients, and the boss demands last-minute c...