anaging the design and creation of database objects such as tables, stored procedures, and views is a fact of life for database developers. Because applications grow and change continually, additions and changes to database structures (or schemas) are a constant part of the development process. Developers generally create the requisite
usiness applications today are stuck in a time warp. Web-based applications offer ubiquitous access, but the business application architecture many companies use is still locked into the decades old centralized mainframe model?a model where end-users often access a single instance of the application and almost always access a centralized corporate
he sheer number of objects in a database makes keeping track of them difficult. Keeping track of objects dedicated to a particular table, such as constraints and column names, can be discerned by using sp_help @tablename or the information_schema views. The identification of other objects and their dependencies shared between
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hapter 21: Using SQL*Loader to?Load DataIn the scripts provided in Appendix A, a large number of insert commands are executed. In place of those inserts, you could create a file containing the data to be loaded and then use Oracle’s SQL*Loader utility to load the data. This chapter provides you
Globally unique identifiers (GUIDs) distinguish hardware, software, and users. Originally, Microsoft designed the GUID value for use with ActiveX controls; Windows uses a 128-bit GUID to identify ActiveX controls. A 48-bit version generates an Ethernet adapter address. Because no two systems should have the same Ethernet adapter address, a GUID
With the release of the SQLXML Managed Classes, which Microsoft shipped with SQLXML in March of this year, developers now can access SQLXML technology (XML views, templates, XPath, XQuery) from .NET applications. This function enables .NET application developers to retrieve data from relational databases as if they were big XML
ometimes, how you present data is just as important as the data itself. One of the simplest presentation techniques is to sort the data in some meaningful way, but SQL Server Views don’t support the ORDER BY clause. In this article, you’ll learn how to sort the results of a