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Professional Courtesy Is Not Full of Suck
K. Brian Kelley recently blogged on SQL Server Central about what may be the worst display of unprofessionalism I’ve seen in my years as a software professional. Note that I did not say SQL Professional, as I think what he spoke to transends development platforms. I’ll not detail ...
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SQL SERVER – Two Methods to Retrieve List of Primary Keys and Foreign Keys of Database
There are two different methods of retrieving the list of Primary Keys and Foreign Keys from database. Method 1: INFORMATION_SCHEMA SELECT DISTINCTConstraint_Name AS [Constraint],Table_Schema AS [Schema],Table_Name AS [TableName]FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.KEY_COLUMN_USAGE GO Method 2: sys.objects SELECT OBJECT_NAME(OBJECT_ID) AS NameofConstraint,SCHEMA_NAME(schema_id) AS SchemaName,OBJECT_NAME(parent_object_id ...
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In my last blog entry, we came up with an inline table-valued function in AdventureWorks (AW) that accepts a ProductID and CustomerID and will return 3 “suggested” ProductID’s. The idea was that a Customer would go to AW’s website and look at a Product, and the 3 suggested ...
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How to check when was SQL Server installed with a T-SQL query
Today on twitter Lori Edwards (@loriedwards) asked how can you check when was SQL Server installed with a T-SQL query. Otherwise this is pretty simple by looking at the creation time of master database (provided you never had to restore it). But i wanted to find a nice way of ...
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Office 2010: Excel 2010 – New Buttons on Ribbon for Pivot Tables – Custom Named Sets!
Just this week I blogged about adding Named Sets in VBA. Well lo and behold, in Excel 2010, there is a button “Fields, Items, & Sets” that lets you define your own Named Sets. Either with MDX or based on rows/columns you have on your pivot table Works pretty slick! ...
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