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SQLAuthority News – Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Community Technology Preview (November 2007) VHD

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
Database, SQL Download
SQL Server 2008, the next release of Microsoft SQL Server, will provide a comprehensive data platform that is more secure, reliable, manageable and scalable for your mission critical applications, while enabling developers to create new applications that can store and consume any type of data on any device, and enabling…
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SQL SERVER – UDF – Remove Duplicate Chars From String

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
Duplicate Records, SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL String
Few days ago, I received following wonderful UDF from one of this blog reader. This UDF is written for specific purpose of removing duplicate chars string from one large string. Virendra Chauhan, author of this UDF is working as DBA in Lutheran Health Network. CREATE FUNCTION dbo.REMOVE_DUPLICATE_INSTR (@datalen_tocheck INT,@string VARCHAR(255))…
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SQLAuthority Author Visit – IT Outsourcing to India – Top 10 Reasons Companies Outsource

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
Database, DBA, Outsourcing Technology, Software Development, SQLAuthority Author Visit
Yesterday I had meeting with few of the leading outsourcing companies in Ahmedabad, India. Regular readers of this blog knows that I am currently in India handling large scale outsourcing assignment. My responsibilities includes managing application development, system architecture and database architecture. The purpose of meeting was to exchange the…
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