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    SQL Server Management: Compatibility Levels

    by Kevin Conan on Mar 28, 2013 in categories Microsoft SQL Server Admin. Article views: 6111 views

    So you think compatibility levels will solve all your problems? Think again!

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    When working with different database systems you have to be aware that some things work differently from one system to another. I already blogged a couple of times about differences between SQl Server and Oracle, those post are the following Truncate r…

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    How I would like to use servicestack.text, dapper and sql server to use as a cache.

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    SQL Server Licensing for Non-Production

    by Kevin Conan on Feb 14, 2013 in categories Microsoft SQL Server. Article views: 1338 views

    One of my favorite movie quotes comes from Under Siege 2 (slightly altered to avoid cursing): “Assumption is the mother of all screw ups”.

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    When is DTEXEC installed?

    by Koen Verbeeck on Feb 12, 2013 in categories Microsoft SQL Server, SSIS, Business Intelligence. Article views: 1204 views

    Which minimal components do you need to install to run SSIS packages on a server? Let's find out!

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    An Oracle NULL/Blank gotcha when coming from SQL Server

    by SQLDenis on Feb 10, 2013 in categories Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle. Article views: 916 views

    In my Differences between Oracle and SQL Server when working with NULL and blank values post I already showed you how blanks and NULLS are handled differently between Oracle and SQL Server. Today I found another interesting tidbit. I you have a varc…

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    This blog post describes how making the data flow buffers smaller might give a performance boost in some scenarios.

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    WHERE not to use FUNCTIONS

    by Axel Achten (axel8s) on Jan 24, 2013 in categories Database Programming, Microsoft SQL Server Admin. Article views: 1635 views

    Functions can be very powerful, but used in the wrong place in a query they can show some unexpected behavior. In this post I will be using the AdventureWorks2008R2 database and I will query the Sales.SalesOrderHeader to get all the 2006 OrderDates. A…

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    Stupid me #1 – Locking myself out of SQL Server

    by Koen Verbeeck on Jan 15, 2013 in categories Microsoft SQL Server. Article views: 1707 views

    The first blog post of a possible series where I describe a little problem I encountered and how I solved it.

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    I wrote a blogpost about the fact that there is a common myth that you can't rollback a truncate statement in SQL this post was written on June 13, 2007 and it showed you that you could rollback a truncate. Here is some code that shows that. CREATE…

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