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Example: Loading RSS feeds into an SQL Server 2005 XML column Redux
Kirk and I are having a lot of fun with this RSS issue. Here's an updated version of my previous example that copes with Unicode BOMs and pre-validates the fetched RSS before it attempts to store it....
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Example: Using .nodes() to shred XML
I like doing things the simple way I guess. Here's an example of using the .nodes() method of an XML-type instance to produce a tabular shred of its data. Not hard once you figure out that its giving a...
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Attack of the Three-State Bits
You know, I really like Access 2003 as an administrator's front-end to a SQL database that is principally backing-up a web site. It never made much sense to me to invest the extra time to wrap a bunch...
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Hashing an IDbCommand
Suppose you're writing a generic data access layer (DAL) that executed a command and cached the results some place. You want that DAL to be smart enough to either execute the code and cache the results...
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So you want breadcrumbs for ASP.NET do you?
Omaha .NET Guru offered up this control (source here) for doing just that. What's extra cool is that he turned this into a pretty good tutorial on writing server controls too.
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Installing the AdventureWorks DB on SQL Express
I've just posted an article about how to install the AdventureWorks database into the default instance of SQLExpress. Not hard, but I thought if I could make it easier for folks, that's cut down on the...
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It's Official: Kickstarting Reporting Services on SSWUG
SSWUG's daily newsletter announced it this morning: Getting Started with SQL Server Reporting Services Our next webcast, all about SQL Server Reporting Services, is just days away. Please register...
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Coolest InfoPath Post ever... at least so far.
So how do you use InfoPath and SQL Server 2005 Service Broker together? Rushi Desai to the rescue: Integerating InfoPath with SQL Server 2005. Man this guy is cranking out the good stuff!
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Non-obvious but true: SQL's XML type instances are not DOM documents by default
Darshan Sighn, publisher of YukonXML posted an interested question on the SQL2005 XML newsgroup yesterday asking how to force an untyped XML instance to be like an normal XML document where there is a...
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Jeff Nolan demonstrates why I love XQuery.
He gets it and he offers a demo. It's happening... unstructured text search. Been a long time in coming and when it gets into the hands of users look out, a whole new way to manage information.
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XML Addict? SQL Junkie? I've got required reading for you.
Michael Rys posts links to three key white papers on XML storage, XQuery and XML indexing internals.What are you waiting for...? :)
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GoSQLServer March 2005 Meeting Annoucement
Who: The "Best of the best of the best" from Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Nebraska - Al Zyck and Ravi ThoutireddyWhat: Overview of BCBSNE's multi-Terabyte, 64bit, SQL Server 2000/Informatica Enterprise...
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Service Oriented Integration and the Reporting Services Web Services
I was blessed with the opportunity to follow one of the best .NET brains in Omaha last night -- the Phil Canarski (sp?) -- with a quick presentation on using Reporting Services's Web Services as part...
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Greg Low shows the value of DDL triggers
Aussie SQL Guru Greg Low shares a script the prevents changes to a SQL Server 2005 master database. Too cool.
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Reporting Services Scripter Rocks!
Fellow SQL Server MVP Jasper Smith has come with a really neat tool named "Reporting Services Scripter" that makes managing multiple Reporting Services installations easier. It enables scripting of all...
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