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Execute a package from a package

(Darren Green) You can use a parent or master package to control the execution of one or more child packages. This is often used in a looping scenario, or when there are a number of individual packages that make up a process. This can be achieved very simply in SQL Server 2000 by using the Execu

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Consume XML In JSP

(Chanoch) XML will save the world! …At least, that’s what I was told. But somehow, several years later, most of us are not using eXtensible Markup Language (XML) in our every-day programming. All the same, from time to time, you may be asked to provide a service that will consume or output X

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Take Control of Joins

(Itzik Ben-Gan) When you write a multitable join that uses inner joins exclusively (or for that matter, only cross joins or only full outer joins), the table order you specify in the FROM clause doesn’t affect the query result. However, when you’re using left or right outer joins, if you revise the

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Designing Schemas

(Cameron O’Rourke) When you build an application, do you start with a database schema that has been solidly designed and tested? Or does your application begin its lifecycle on a wobbly foundation, perched atop a machine-generated schema? In this article, I hope to convince you to view database