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I am trying to insert a record into a table in SQL Server 2005. The column is a varchar datatype. The value I am trying to insert is a string containing '.<BR><BR>Like this:<BR>INSERT INTO MyTable ...

SQL Server 2008, aka “Katmai,” gives SQL Server shops plenty of reasons to get excited. The best SQL Server release to date, it sports more nice new features than you can count, and the improvements ...

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 ...

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