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Recognizing Relational Anti-Patterns

Maurice shares another relational database anti-pattern. I saw a case where a table had rows with a single meaning from business rules. They extend the application and add a type to the row for new business cases. The table became very complex to query, since there was alternate rows for the original business case. In the beginning getting the most […]

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Tips for using data types in SQL Server 2014

Tips for using data types in SQL Server 2014 Use Date/Time data types to store date/time information separately. In SQL Server 2014 you can store the date and time information separately. For example, if you need to work with date data only, use the Date data type instead of datetime or smalldatetime to optimize storage space and simplify date modifications...

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Query Object Dependencies

(Derik Hammer) SQL Server Management Studio has a decent interface for viewing object dependencies, check out TechNet for those procedures. But, we all know the value of being able to run queries for the information that we need. There are two methods that we’re going to cover for finding object dep