Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post. In the previous post, I discussed the value() method as part of my XQuery for the Non-Expert series. This next post will deal with a topic similar to the exist() method – the determination of whether a element … Continue reading XQuery for the Non-Expert – Exist
Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post. In the last post, I discussed the query() method in my XQuery for the Non-Expert series. With this next post, we’ll be working on taking data out of the XML fragments and placing them into columns with the … Continue reading XQuery for the Non-Expert – Value
Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post. In the last post, I discussed the nodes() method in my XQuery for the Non-Expert series. With this next post, we’ll be looking into the query() method. The main use for the query() method is to retrieve child … Continue reading XQuery for the Non-Expert – Query
Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post. In the last post, I discussed XMLNAMESPACES in the XQuery for the Non-Expert series. With this post, we’ll be looking into the nodes() method. Where XMLNAMESPACES is the map through the XML document, the nodes() method is the … Continue reading XQuery for the Non-Expert – Nodes
Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post. Let’s talk about XMLNAMESPACE. Are you excited? Does your skin crawl with excitement – or rather unease at the thought of leveraging this T-SQL clause? The goal here is to make XQuery and it’s functions and clauses easier … Continue reading XQuery for the Non-Expert – XMLNAMESPACE
Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post. It’s time for a new series to blog posts – XQuery for the Non-Expert. The purpose for these posts will be to provide a foundation for using XQuery against XML. Myself, I am not an XQuery expert. These … Continue reading XQuery for the Non-Expert – Terminology
Alright, up to the last of the changes I’ve made to the index analysis query that I had planned. This makes the fifth post in the series on this query. The previous posts in this complete series are: Analyze Your Indexes Part 1 – Combine existing index statistics and missing indexes into a single output … Continue reading Return of Index Analysis Part 5
We’ve got through the first three parts of this continued series on the Index Analysis query last week. The previous posts in this complete series are: Analyze Your Indexes Part 1 – Combine existing index statistics and missing indexes into a single output Analyze Your Indexes Part 2 – Find existing duplicate and overlapping indexes … Continue reading Return of Index Analysis Part 4
Missing Numbers Today a developer came up to me and wanted help solving a problem he was running into with a list of numbers. He had a list of 53 numbers in a comma separated list. Unfortunately, the 53 numbers were not all in the table that he was querying. He wanted to know if … Continue reading Finding Missing Values from an Array
Time for part two of my continued Index Analysis query. The previous posts in this series are: Analyze Your Indexes Part 1 – Combine existing index statistics and missing indexes into a single output Analyze Your Indexes Part 2 – Find existing duplicate and overlapping indexes Analyze Your Indexes Part 3 – Find the relationship … Continue reading Return of Index Analysis Part 2
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