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Richard Douglas
Follow /6.20.2013 at 10:30am / SQL Server

Natural Born Killers (The series) – Day 4 Indices

To those that don’t know me “Natural Born Killers (The Series)” sounds like a very strange choice for a SQL Server blog title and to be fair it is. Those who do know me, will know that I have been presenting a session this year titled “Natural Born Killers...
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Craig Mullins
Follow /6.19.2013 at 10:47pm / IBM DB2

DB2 Locking, Part 12: Lock Promotion and Escalation

It can be potentially troublesome when DB2 lock promotion and escalation occur. These situations can greatly reduce the availability of concurrent access to data. First let's look at lock promotion . When binding a program with an ISOLATION level...
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Stuart Ainsworth
Follow /6.19.2013 at 8:57pm / SQL Server

SQL Server XQuery: .exist() method

I’m trying to beef up my writing about XQuery in advance of the upcoming PASS Summit 2013; I got accepted to present, and I want to make sure that I start covering a lot of topics related to XML so that I’ve honed my focus a bit.  Unfortunately,...
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Mike Smithers
Follow /6.19.2013 at 6:05pm / Oracle

Old Dog, New Phone – Insert into multiple tables in a single statement

I got a new ( and possibly new-fangled) phone recently. Having spent a suitably geeky amount of time exploring the new features of this slab of Android lovliness I did come across something which left me quite stumped… somebody rang me up on it...
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Josh Howard
Follow /6.19.2013 at 4:57pm / Toad Data Point

Webinar: What's New in Toad BI Suite 2.0 - June 26th

Dell Software is announcing new versions of Toad Data Point 3.3 , Toad Decision Point 2.0 and Toad™ Business Intelligence Suite 2. 0. tomorrow. Together, the latest versions provide an integrated solution that enable organizations to more easily...
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