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Monday, September 12, 2005 10:27 PM

Getting to know SQL 2005 Service Broker

Looks likes I've got to do a presentation on Service Broker for the SQL 2005 launch - so I've been doing some home work on the subject. The best primer I've found is http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsql90/html/sqlsvcbroker.asp?frame=true this
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Tuesday, September 06, 2005 6:11 PM

SQL 2005: Making sense of the new Optimistic Concurrency Controls and the readers that block writers

For a long time now Oracle enthusiasts have bashed SQL Server for not having Optimistic Concurrency Controls.  They would demonstrate a SQL Server reader blocking a writer and possibly a writer blocking a reader.  Thus, having appeared to demonstrate
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Wednesday, August 31, 2005 10:34 AM

SQL 2005 - UPSERT: In nature but not by name; but at last!

SQL Server has long been criticised for not having an UPSERT command, well now in SQL 2005 we have some good news, we have two new TSQL set operators that give us the complex insert/update logic that constitute an UPSERT.  These are INTERSECT and
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Tuesday, July 19, 2005 9:50 AM

Are you still using @@IDENTITY?

Are you still using @@IDENTITY?  It seems many people are.  If you are, are you aware that it might not always return what you expect?  No? then read on.  @@IDENTITY will return the last IDENTITY column value inserted across any scope
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Thursday, June 23, 2005 5:40 PM

Cool new OVER Clause (Transact-SQL) in SQL Server 2005

Cool new OVER Clause (Transact-SQL) in SQL Server 2005 to circumvent the not so efficient correlated subquery. Imagine a table: create table grades( StudentID int not null,StudentName varchar(10) not null,Subject varchar(10) not null,Score 
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