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I've got an Access 2003 database linked to a SQL Server 2000 database. <BR><BR>In SQL Server (Enterprise Manager) - the field is listed as:<BR>Data Type: text, Length: 16, Allow Nulls = Yes<BR><BR>In ...

I'm not sure this is possible (I have googled it, and came up empty), but we are building a new server to house a payroll/HR app and this will be running on Windows 2008 Standard and SQL Server 2008 ...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to speed up your application, don't look at your code, look at your data access. The two slowest things you can do in application development are ...

A SQL Server expert gives his take on the absolute, No. 1, very worst thing IT pros can do when it comes to indexing. Consultant, author and Microsoft MVP Denny Cherry travels the world helping ...

This article explains how to repair the MDF file using the native repair methods and how to use a Reliable MDF file Repair ...

FileTables, a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2012, is a unique table that reflects metadata of files in a specified folder. FileTables is a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2012. It's a ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...

While temporal data support is something that has existed in the past within other database platforms, it is a newly available feature with the RTM version of SQL Server 2016. In case you haven’t ...