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Nov27

SQL SERVER – 2005 – List All Stored Procedure in Database

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts, SQL Stored Procedure
66 Comments

Want to see all stored procedure in database at once? Run SELECT * FROM sys.procedures. This simple query works only with SQL Server 2005.

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Nov26

SQL SERVER – Rules of Third Normal Form and Normalization Advantage – 3NF

Pinal Dave
SQL Interview Questions and Answers
Data Warehousing, Database, DBA
29 Comments

What is Third Normal Form and what is its advantage? I ask this in every interview I take. Here are the rules of 3NF and its cost in performance.

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Nov25

SQLite or SQL Server Express for a Small App

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Developer, SQL Backup and Restore, SQL Server, SQL Server Express
No Comments

SQLite or SQL Server Express depends on write concurrency, deployment, backup, and the growth path your small application really needs.

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Nov24

SQL SERVER – Upgrade Advise – From 2000 to 2005 or 2008

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Database, DBA
5 Comments

Should you upgrade from 2000 to 2005 or 2008? My advice: move to SQL Server 2005 with Service Pack 2 now, as SQL Server 2008 needs time to settle.

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Nov23

SQL SERVER – 2008 – November CPT5 New Improvement

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
CTP, SQL Download
No Comments

What is new in the SQL Server 2008 November CPT5 build: IntelliSense, Resource Governor, backup compression, Transparent Data Encryption and geo-spatial support.

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Nov22

SQL SERVER – Shrinking Truncate Log File – Log Full – Part 2

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Shrinking Database, SQL Backup and Restore, SQL Server, Transaction Log
19 Comments

About a year ago, I wrote SQL SERVER – Shrinking Truncate Log File – Log Full. I was just going through some of the earlier posts and comments.

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Nov21

SQL SERVER – Generate Incremented Linear Number Sequence

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts, SQL Server
38 Comments

A reader asked how to generate an incremented linear number sequence in SQL Server, like a sequence in Oracle. A short WHILE loop script does it.

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