2004-06-23
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Administration
2004-06-22
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Case Sensitivity in Selects - Part 2
In this follow up Andy looks into some of the options available when you're dealing with situations where you're joining a case sensitive column to a case insensitive column. We think after reading this you'll be ready to just say no!
2004-06-22
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2004-06-21
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Distributed Backup Checking
SQL Server backups are rock solid. But checking them is another matter and something that every DBA is responsible for doing. Another followup article by new Author Kevin O'Donovan to the issue of looking at which database
2004-06-21
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2004-06-18
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2004-06-17
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2004-06-16
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2004-06-15
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Case Sensitivity in Selects - Part 3
See what a reader had to say about Part 1, make sure you've read Part 2, then feel the pain as the author describes a lookup table that should have had unique values and doesn't.
2004-06-15
7,394 reads
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