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As I discussed in an earlier column, SQL Server keeps a plan cached for each query it sees (assuming the query requires planning in the first place, of course). That's great for speeding up processing ...

Microsoft Corp. today released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the upcoming Service Pack 1 for its SQL Server 2005 database. New features in SP1 include full database mirroring to offer ...

A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...

I know, I try to avoid them as well whenever I can substitute them with DML statements that work correctly on a group of records. Cursors, they are great for less-technical people to describe intended ...