T-SQL does some things wonderfully, but cursors are the bane of the language, often causing performance issues. Changing your queries around to remove cursors can be tricky and new author Kamran Ali brings us one technique he has used to dramatically improve performance.
2008-06-13 (first published: 2006-01-17)
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Reporting Services was one of the most popular add-ons to SQL Server 2000 and the next version has been greatly improved. Author Kamran Ali brings us a look at some of the new features and enhancements in this platform.
2006-02-22
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