Tag - SQL Server

How to Dynamically Select rows in SQL Server

If you want to restrict other developers from using your Stored Procedures that returns a huge amount of data which affects server performance and Application Performance weather it is a Windows or Web Application.You can use the following idea when you create Stored Procedures:-- ============================================= -- Author: ...

XML Data and Document Storage in SQL Server

XML is a platform-independent data representation format based originally on SGML. Since its popularization, it is becoming used as a data storage format. It has its own type system, based on the XML Schema Definition language (XSD). Both XML and XSD are W3C standards at the Recommendation level. An XML...

System Metadata Tables and INFORMATION_SCHEMA in SQL Server

Information about assemblies as well as the assembly code itself and the dependencies is stored in the system metadata tables, which, in general, store information about SQL Server database objects, such as tables and indexes. Some metadata tables store information for the entire database instance and exist only in the ...