In a previous article, I talked about getting started with managing SQL server using PowerShell and the Server Management Objects (SMO). While that was mostly spent making the connection and doing ...

Technology Toolbox: VB.NET, C#, SQL Server "Yukon" All versions of SQL Server prior to SQL Server "Yukon" provide two ways to write procedural code that executes inside the database. The usual way is ...

I'm using bcp to dump large quantities of data into a table that has several indexed views built on top of it. It seems to work fine for a while, but on ...

Unlike standard views they can provide significant performance gains. Oracle has a similar feature called Materialized Views. Indexed Views were introduced in SQL Server 2000 as an Enterprise Edition ...

We have a need to have a view be able to reference columns in another database on another MS SQL 2000 server. Is that going to require linked servers, or is there another syntax or facility? Thanks!

A typical screen in your user interface probably combines data from several different tables. To handle that, I typically have my back-end processes generate Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) which combine ...