Ward Pond's SQL Server blog News Archive
Ruminating on issues pertinent to the design and development of sound databases and processes under Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000 (while reserving the right to vent about anything else that's on my mind)
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- 93,000 Concurrent SAP Users In A Free Download?!
- Launch 2005: Here Comes The Next Generation of Developer Tools
- XML Programming in SQL Server 2005
- Database Design: Do Not Fear NULLs
- Two Programming Tricks: Counting Characters In A String and RETURN CASE
- The Gig Was..
- The Gig is On
- SQL Server 2005 September CTP Available Now!
- Respite From The Last Mile
- Baseball Challenge This Sunday!
- The OPENROWSET Trick: Accessing Stored Procedure Output In A SELECT Statement
- Facelift I
- Thanks, Scotty..
- Baseball Challenge 2005: A Chance To Give Something Back
- A Solution For Stripping Invalid XML Characters From varchar/text Data Structures
- Slight Ado About Nothing: More On NULLs
- Slight Ado About Nothing: More On NULLs
- Database Design: A Brief Rant About Quality
- CASE To The Rescue Again: Order Of Operations In SQL Server
- Finally, An Answer (and a mea cupla) For Adam Machanic
- Slight Ado About Nothing: More On NULLs
- Database Programming: A More Performant Alternative To COLUMNS_UPDATED()
- CASE To The Rescue Again: Order Of Operations In SQL Server
- Finally, An Answer (and a mea culpa) For Adam Machanic
- Mass Versioning Of Database Components In SQL Server 2005 (or, Jeff Ball Is My New Hero)
- Database Programming: A More Performant Alternative To COLUMNS_UPDATED()
- CASE To The Rescue Again: Order Of Operations In SQL Server
- Finally, An Answer (and a mea culpa) For Adam Machanic
- Database Design: A Brief Rant About Quality
- Slight Ado About Nothing: More On NULLs
- 93,000 Concurrent SAP Users In A Free Download?!
- Launch 2005: Here Comes The Next Generation of Developer Tools
- XML Programming in SQL Server 2005
- Database Design: Do Not Fear NULLs
- Two Programming Tricks: Counting Characters In A String and RETURN CASE
- Database Programming: Applying APPLY -- Solving Parent Axis Access Performance Issues In XML Access In SQL Server 2005
- Mass Versioning Of Database Components In SQL Server 2005 (or, Jeff Ball Is My New Hero)
- Non-Technical News: New Site With Metric Tons Of Great Music
- T-SQL Update Operations: An Answer For Jared
- Database Programming: IDENT_CURRENT() Behavior Change In SQL Server 2005
- Loading An XML Document Into SQL Server: Another OPENROWSET Trick
- Database Programming: A Word About XQuery Performance Tuning In SQL Server 2005
- Database Programming: Feedback Requested -- Which Syntax Is More Maintainable?
- Microsoft Announces Development Contest
- Database Programming: The Oldest Performance Trick In The Book
- Technical News: SQL Server 2005 SP1 March 2006 CTP Now Available
- Pond's Laws of System Design (or, How To Be A Competent Professional In An Irrational World)
- Thank You For Enabling Me To Be Blatantly Self-Congratulatory
- Database Programming: Implementing Optional Parameters To A Stored Procedure
- Pond's Laws of System Design (or, How To Be A Competent Professional In An Irrational World)
- Thank You For Enabling Me To Be Blatantly Self-Congratulatory
- Database Programming: Just What Were Those Performance Implications, Anyway?
- Database Programming: User-Defined Functions And Linked Server Connections
- Technical News: One More SQL Server 2005 SP1 Post - Download Link For Books OnLine
- Technical News: SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1 Now Available For Download
- Database Programming: Yet More On Optional Parameters
- Technical News: "Express" Program Extended Indefinitely
- Technical News: SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1 Now Available For Download
- I Haven't Forgotten About You..
- Database Programming: SET Options That Impact XML Access In SQL Server 2005
- Front Page (Career) News: Opportunity Knocks; Your Correspondent Answers
- SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1 QFE Rollup Released
- .Net Inside Microsoft: Meet Brad Uhrich
- Database Programming: Slaying The Time Zone Conversion Beast (or at least rendering it comatose)
- Good Luck, Robert Scoble
- New Job, New (non-technical) Blog Feature
- Happy Birthday, Mom
- This Blog Is One Year Old!
- Field of Dreams: Better Living through Youth Baseball
- Epilogue: Not All Dreams Come True
- Made In Express Contest Finalists Selected
- Database Programming: Optional Parameters Revisited
- What Do You Get When You Put 600 Database Developers In A Room?
- Database Programming: An Incrementally Better Mousetrap For Optional Parameters
- Do I Need To Start A Baseball Feed?
- Redmond Raiders Update: Moses Lake, Here They Come!
- Database Programming: Nearing Capitulation On Optional Parameters
- Database Programming: No Better Options For Optional Parameters
- Database Programming: One Last Gasp On Optional Parameters
- Technical News: The Develop Without Borders Contest
- Optional Parameters: Adam Hopes I'm Joking, But The Joke's On Me
- Non-Technical Content: Redmond Raiders Win First Game
- Database Programming: One Last Gasp On Optional Parameters
- Non-Technical Content: Raiders Now 1-1 In Tournament Play
- Non-Technical Content: Raiders Now 1-1 In Tournament Play
- Non-Technical Content: Redmond Raiders Win Thriller
- Non-Technical Content: Home From Moses Lake A Day Early
- Pond’s Eleventh Law Emerges From Reflection Upon The Perils Of Going Fast
- Database Programming: Temp Tables or Table Variables?
- Pond's Seventh Law, Applied: Avoiding Random Elegance
- New SQL Server 2005 Books OnLine Available For Download
- A Shiny New Corner of The Blogosphere
- Business Intelligence Is *Not* An Oxymoron
- Better Living Through Technology
- Database Programming: Temp Tables or Table Variables?
- SQL Server 2005 Cumulative Hotfix Download Available
- Baseball Challenge 2006: Another Chance To Give Back
- Scott's Answer, Completed: Temp Tables and Recompiles In SQL Server 2005
- The Start of An Answer For Scott: Temp Tables and Recompiles
- "Investigative Journalism" At Microsoft