Category Archives: database

Does SQL Server Management Studio truncate your results?

Ever work with query results that are so long SQL Server Management Studio truncates the results? I ran into this issue recently while running some utility sprocs that generate C# code for me.  I was thinking I’d have to refactor … Continue reading

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What happens in EXEC, stays in EXEC. Lifespan of a MSSQL table variable

One of my all time favorite features of MSSQL 2005+ is being able to create table variables on the fly from SELECT statements. This isn’t a lesson in what table variables are, but here is an easy sample in case … Continue reading

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How to JOIN two tables using LINQ to SQL

Wanted to share this since it gave me so much trouble figuring out.  It’s a simple SQL query ported to LINQ to SQL that joins two tables to return a filtered listed of data. Here are the tables from my … Continue reading

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Come have a 360Flex chat with me and Jun Heider

Chat is @ Thursday Feb 11th, 11:30am MST Jun Heider and myself will be talking to the 360|Flex guys tomorrow about our session.  It’s actually going to be a back-to-back mega session comparing the latest and greatest on both the … Continue reading

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