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SQL 2008 Merge and PK/FK Constraints
Posted by paschott in SQL Server On January 17, 2011
We ran into this issue a while back. SQL 2008 has a “feature” that will not allow inserts into a table on either side of a Foreign Key relationship. If you attempt to insert into a table
Book Review: Cooking For Geeks
(I know this isn’t SQL-related, but I think this may be a great read for people with similar interests.) This is not a cookbook. If you’re looking for a new collection of recipes, this is not the
SSIS, OLEDB Data Sources, and Table Variables
I ran across an interesting problem when trying to tune some SSIS data source performance issues the other day. I had noticed that we were doing a pretty large select out of a table filtered on a
Review: Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices – Introduction
A while back I received a review copy of Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices by Ed Wilson (blog | twitter) and the Windows PowerShell Teams at Microsoft. Having finally found the time to sit down
Powershell for Database Developers
Posted by paschott in SQL Server On April 13, 2010
I recently presented for the SQLPASS AppDev Virtual Chapter on “Powershell for Database Developers”. I promised that I’d get the files used in the demos up to my blog shortly so wanted to make good on that
Powershell: Writing Text Files
Posted by paschott in PowerShell On March 17, 2010
I was recently trying to generate a bunch of data that I needed to pass through one of our in-house DLLs in order to use some custom encryption algorithms. Thanks to the wonderful Powershell community, I found
Powershell Links – 2010-03-06
Posted by paschott in PowerShell On March 7, 2010
Here are some of the more interesting Powershell links I came across recently, along with some thoughts about them. Powershell, String Encryption, and GPG – SQLServerCentral.com brought this one to my attention. Chad Miller discusses working with
DDL Schema Change Auditing on SQL Server 2005 / 2008
Posted by paschott in SQL Server On February 8, 2010
I’ve run across this before so wanted to write up a solution to keeping track of schema changes we’ve used. We trust our team to make DDL changes, additions, drops in order to get their job done.
Powershell Community Extensions
Posted by paschott in PowerShell On January 30, 2010
While with the time and knowledge we can write a lot of the things we’ll use in Powershell, it’s often not worth it to re-invent the wheel. There’s a group of Powershell coders who have put together
Powershell – Comparison Operators
I’m writing this one so I remember these operators. Powershell doesn’t use standard operators such as =, <, , !=, etc. These operators are used in the following manner. Operator Conventional Operator -eq = -ne or !=