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SQL103 – Designing Triggers

We've finally made it to the last post in the SQL103 series. I've written posts about triggers before. I've shared with you how triggers can be good things and

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SQL 103-Designing Stored Procedures

We're nearing the end of the SQL103 series. We've designed tables, relationships, indexes and views. There's plenty more to learn. Today we're going to discuss

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SQL103 – Designing Indexes

So you've designed your tables, then you set up your primary and foreign keys. You even defined views that your programmers will use to present the data to end

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SQL103 – Designing Views

One of the next steps, after designing your tables is designing your views.  You'll often need to create them so that programmers will have access to the data

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SQL103 – Prevent Dirty Data

Now that we've built relationships between our tables, we want to take the next step with our design is making sure the data stored in our tables is as clean as

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SQL 103 – Relating Your Tables

Last time we were discussing how to build normalized tables.  We designed 3 tables: Customer, Address and PhoneNumber.  The Address and PhoneNumber tables are

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SQL 103 – Normalized Table Design

So last time we were discussing the difference between normalized and de-normalized database design.  We also discussed our case study, the CRM company.  We

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SQL103 – Normalized or Denormalized Design

When you begin designing a database, you start with the tables. You can’t very well start with views or stored procedures, right? What tables would they

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SQL 103 – Introduction to Database Design and Architecture

I’m starting a new blog series to accompany the session I’m presenting at SQL Saturday #87 in Louisville! This session will cover the basics of designing a

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SQL201 – Stored Procedure Results

I'm working my way through the last of the 201 lessons. Today we're going to dive back into stored procedures. This time I want to cover the three ways you can

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SQL201-On Handling Errors

Let's get back into SQL 200 by learning to deal with errors. Churchill had a great quote that applies to development (database or not) "He who fails to plan is

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Why I Went with SQL Sentry

In my SQL Saturday #80 Session I spoke about how to get started as a DBA. One of the greatest advantages you can have as a DBA is setting up a fully featured