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SQL 301 — WITH CUBE and ROLLUP

Have you been asked to summarize some data into a nice report for management? They want to see subtotals and grand totals you say? You don't have to drop the

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ASC, DESC, and Filtered Views

I know I've covered quite a bit of the CREATE INDEX statement, but there is even more to learn. Today I want to cover ASC, DESC, and the WHERE clause for

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SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL

Like I've mentioned before, unless you use SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL, the server will default to READ COMMITTED. What this means is by default, your

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SQL 301 – Views

At this point I'm sure you know how to CREATE and ALTER a VIEW. But today I'd like to go into a little more detail on views. I'd like to cover updatable views,

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sp_executesql

I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've brought up dynamically generated SQL statements. But it's time you learn about them. There are times where you'll

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Intro to XML, Part The Second

Last time I gave you a short introduction into XML. I covered the very beginning of what it is, what you use it for, and I even showed you an example file. This

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XML, in as Few Posts as Possible

Ok, I know I have a few groups of posts started, so you won't mind me starting another one, right? Right, so this collection of posts will be all about XML. If

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Extract, Transform, and Load

What is ETL? ETL stands for Extract, Transform and Load, a process used to collect data from various sources, transform the data depending on business rules and

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Comparing Query Performance

A significant portion of your time as a database programmer or administrator will be to improve the performance of queries. While there are several benchmarks