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[August 2003]

Using a Stored Procedure in a CASE Expression
You can't execute a stored procedure from a CASE expression, but you can use CASE to return a character string that you can use in the execution of the stored procedure.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[August 2003]

Deleting Multiple Records
Learn how to delete multiple records from a table by using a view as the filter.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[June 2003]

Full-Text Search Basics
Microsoft provides answers about the capabilities of SQL Server 2000's full-text search component.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[June 2003]

Tracking Index Usage
Use SQL Server Profiler to determine which indexes you need to keep on your tables.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[June 2003]

Generating Scripts for SQL Server Jobs
SQL-DMO gives you a way to list jobs running on SQL Server and obtain their scripts.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[May 2003]

Analyzing a Query from the Inside Out
Microsoft's SQL Server development team takes a close look at a query that works from the inside out to return information from tables that are related only indirectly.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[May 2003]

Working Around a Varchar Truncation
How can I keep SQL Server 7.0 from truncating varchar data?
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[May 2003]

Error Investigation Reveals Ghostly Objects
When you delete rows, pages, or extents, SQL Server can mark those objects as "ghosts" and clean them up later. Here's how one DBA unearthed these ghostly objects while investigating a mysterious error code.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[April 2003]

Moving SQL Server 7.0 Databases to SQL Server 2000
SQL Server doesn't rename directories as part of the upgrade process. Here's a renaming problem you might face when upgrading and how to handle it.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[April 2003]

Replicating Data in a Franchise Company
Here's a replication tip for ensuring the data that your franchises transfer to your head office is synchronized and includes modifications from each branch.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[April 2003]

Choosing the Right Defragmentation Method
Do you need to defragment your database but still maintain high availability? Microsoft offers several options for defragmenting tables in SQL Server 2000.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[March 2003]

Importing Word Documents into SQL Server
Microsoft's SQL Server development team explains how to import Word documents into SQL Server, then index them.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[March 2003]

Deleting Spaces in a SQL Server 6.5 Char Column
A sample script shows how to remove extraneous spaces from a char column.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[February 2003]

Automating Defragmentation
Manually checking and defragmenting your database's tables can be a laborious process. Here's how you can eliminate fragmentation from the start and how to automate defragmentation when you need it.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[February 2003]

Adding Columns to Replicated Tables
How can you add a column to a replicated table without reinitializing the entire publication? The SQL Server Development Team has an answer.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[February 2003]

Dividing an Update into Batches
Here's how to use the ROWCOUNT setting to divide a long update into batches and maintain good performance.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[January 2003]

Determining a Stored Procedure's Execution Status
Wrapping your stored procedure call with state-change logic will let you determine the execution status of the procedure.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[January 2003]

Initializing a Database When Installing Replication
Generate scripts to recreate stored procedures and triggers every time you set up replication.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[January 2003]

Importing an XML File
Microsoft's SQL Server development team shares 3 approaches for importing an XML file into SQL Server 2000.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

[December 2002]

Covered Query vs. Covering Index
What constitutes a covered query? What’s the definition of a covering index? And when do you use one, or the other, or both? Microsoft’s SQL Server development team sheds light on one reader’s question.
SQL Server Magazine — Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team

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