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Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology ...

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A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...

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RIGHT JOIN (or RIGHT OUTER JOIN): It’s the opposite of a LEFT JOIN. It keeps all rows from the right table and matches from ...

Multiple Detail Records - 4 in this case. (linked to the header record) Multiple Inventory Records - again, 4 - (each detail record points to one specific inventory record, but the inventory may be ...

One of the critical decisions facing companies embarking on big data projects is which database to use, and often that decision swings between SQL and NoSQL. SQL has the impressive track record, the ...

Hi,<BR><BR>I'm in the process of building a SQL clean-up script that will be removing lots of now redundant data from our Oracle DB.<BR><BR>It seems that for tables which contain a FK pointing back to ...