SQL Server 2005 Installation Failures
Recently I was trying to install SQL Server 2005 on a workstation running Windows XP Professional SP3 and for some reason the installation kept failing. The first item in the list that failed was MSXML...
View ArticleHow to Generate Insert Scripts for Existing Data
Let’s say you have a bunch of data stored in a table and you need to generate an insert script for each record. Maybe you need to save the scripts in source control or maybe you need the scripts to...
View ArticleWhen To Use NVARCHAR
The Short Answer Only when you need to store multi-lingual (unicode) data. The Nitty Gritty The fundamental unit of storage in a SQL Server database is an 8 KB page. To paraphrase the MSDN, SQL...
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