Why are there INFOMATION_SCHEMA and catalog views in SQL Server that do very similar things? For example, to retrieve a list of tables in a database, I can do it via sys.tables or ...
A typical screen in your user interface probably combines data from several different tables. To handle that, I typically have my back-end processes generate Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) which combine ...
In a previous article, I talked about getting started with managing SQL server using PowerShell and the Server Management Objects (SMO). While that was mostly spent making the connection and doing ...
I'm using MSSQL Server 2000. Is it possible to use SET statements in views. I need to use SET ARITHIGNORE ON & SET ARITHABORT OFF to allow a divide/0 to return null (which I can change to 0 using ...