Archive for the ‘SQL Server 2005’ Category

New to .NET integration in SQL Server? Here is some useful information put together for you: ·         .NET integration is one of the key feature in SQL Server 2005 ·         The CLR is hosted by SQL server thereby executing the stored procedures in SQL Server’s process space ·         CLR stored procedures uses ADO.NET objects (SqlCommand, SqlConnection, DataSet [...]


We often need to deal with hierarchies (tree structures) in SQL. Some common examples are employee hierarchies, parent-child hierarchies etc.   There is a clean solution to achieve it using CTE (Common Table Expressions) which is demonstrated below with a simple example.   The diagram below represents a parent-child hierarchy:      And the table [...]


  One feature in SQL Server 2005 that made my life easier many occasions is PIVOT clause in T-SQL. You will find it useful if you need to generate Cross-Tab summaries especially while generating reports.    This feature allows you to convert a column’s values in table rows into columns. To see how it works, [...]



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