One way to remove a large number of rows from a table is to do a SELECT INTO of the rows you wish to keep into a new table and...

To use a checksum to determine row changes you need to have a unique key so that individual rows can be identified. (Checksum does not work on text, ntext, image,...

There is a checksum and binary checksum function available with SQL Server. Checksums can be calculated on individual rows or for an entire table. The calculation of checksums is extremely...

The bounds of a database should be determined by that data which needs integrity between its various elements. This is for disaster recovery purposes, if for no other reason. For...