Use sp_dbcmptlevel to change the database compatible level, like 80 for SQL Server 2000 or 90 for 2005, plus the three step best practice to do it.
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SQL SERVER – User Defined Functions (UDF) Limitations
Why are stored procedures more flexible? Here are the User Defined Functions (UDF) limitations: fewer input parameters, no GETDATE(), one result set, and more.
SQLAuthority News – Author Visit – Meeting with Readers – Top Three Features of SQL SERVER 2005
Over dinner in Las Vegas, two readers asked me to pick my top three features of SQL Server 2005 out of Microsoft’s top 30. Here is what I picked and why.
SQL SERVER – SQL Joke, SQL Humor, SQL Laugh – SP
A friend emailed me this stored procedure about marriage, and the bride answers with DROP HIM. Pure SQL humor, for fun only, never for a real server.
Which SQL Server Client Driver to Use Now
Choose a SQL Server client driver by application stack: ODBC, current OLE DB, Microsoft.Data.SqlClient, or JDBC, then test security defaults.
SQL SERVER – 2005 Limiting Result Sets by Using TABLESAMPLE – Examples
TABLESAMPLE returns a random sample of rows by percent or row count. My examples show why the same query returns a different number of rows each time.
SQL SERVER – 2005 Replace TEXT with VARCHAR(MAX) – Stop using TEXT, NTEXT, IMAGE Data Types
Is VARCHAR(MAX) big enough to hold TEXT? Yes. TEXT, NTEXT and IMAGE will be deprecated, so replace TEXT with VARCHAR(MAX) and use the new MAX data types.
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