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Comment on How to Perform SQL Server Row-by-Row Operations Without Cursors by Glen

Glen — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:28:07 +0000

Excellent article David.

It explained the concepts well and my implementation worked first go.

Thanks again for your effort.

Comment on XML data type in SQL Server 2005 vs VARCHAR (MAX) by pintu (chanchal)

pintu (chanchal) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:50:31 +0000

i hav a xml file that i hav to store in a sql database can any one helpme on this topic.
im new in xml .
thanks in advanced

Comment on How to Perform SQL Server Row-by-Row Operations Without Cursors by SLWIDO

SLWIDO — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:46:04 +0000

Good Codes. Thanks for the author.

Comment on Encrypt and decrypt data in SQL Server 2005 by Manjunath

Manjunath — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:47:34 +0000

Dear Philipal,
can you suggest me the method to query the rc4 encrtpted data using Oracle.

Comment on SQL Worst Practices Part3 by Bala

Bala — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:35:58 +0000

Good Job

Comment on Defining cascading referential integrity constraints in SQL Server by Defining cascading referential integrity constraints in SQL Server

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Comment on Defining cascading referential integrity constraints in SQL Server by 3 Below » Defining cascading referential integrity constraints in SQL Server

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:03:16 +0000

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Comment on Encrypt and decrypt data in SQL Server 2005 by saravanakumar

saravanakumar — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:38:52 +0000

hai
this command successfully, but how to encrypt & decrypt
varchar 0r nvarchar filed,
varchar field easy to convert edcrypt but con’t decrypt

Comment on SQL Worst Practices Part4 by Cristi

Cristi — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:09:10 +0000

Hi Philippe, this a gold mine.
A lot a people try to use SQL server 2005 with some application but they don’t have knowledge about the I/O or query optimization(developers) .

Comment on XML data type in SQL Server 2005 vs VARCHAR (MAX) by Orjun Thengdi

Orjun Thengdi — Mon, 26 May 2008 08:43:46 +0000

Hello Michelle,

The article is very good and does clear a lot of doubts in my mind on XML datatype over Varchar(MAX).

However, lets say I decide upon 2 columns ( varchar ) over one XML Datatype, where the information stored is frequently used for search/filteraion ( eg. Articles ), would in this case having 2 varchar columns be better than one XML column.

eg. Searching for content where Author Name begins with ‘M’ – would this be easier when we have 2 columns ie. ‘Content’ and ‘Author’ or a single XML column having 2 elements ‘Content’ and ‘Author’. Assuming there are 5 million ++ records in the table.

Thanks