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Something I found frustrating when designing databases, were the frequent changes made to tables. Managing the scripts can become quite tricky, especially if you are still in the design phase. This is made worse by code changes or change requests to existing data structures. Sometimes a person gets so caught up in the changes you need to make, that you forget about scripting these table changes.
Here is a nice trick in SQL Server Management Studio to easily generate table change scripts. Never forget to script your changes again. (more…)
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Script Table Data – I have used other tools to do this for ages. I can’t believe that I never knew that it existed in SQL Server Management Studio. Well ok, in my defence it isn’t quite the most ‘In-your-face’ setting. Nevertheless, it is very convenient and best of all, you don’t need to leave the IDE to script table data. So where is this function? Why, under Tasks of course. (more…)
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If there is one thing that I always had a pet peeve with, was the table designer column data type default in SQL Server Management Studio. You have no option (that I am aware of) to change the default column data type when creating a new data table in table designer. SQL Server Management Studio decides that using ‘nchar’ is the way to go.
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Well if you want to make your columns another data type, you need to manually select the default value and change it to the data type you want. I wanted to find a way to change that default. Turns out that there is an easy way to accomplish this. (more…)
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What was life like in South Africa 1981? Man, I can still remember that year. Yeah, shocking… I know. I was a young kid in South Africa 1981, but I was into all sorts of gadgets. I loved to take stuff apart and figure out how they worked. I remember taking apart my mom’s broken washing machine. That thing amazed me no end. Thinking back to 1981, I can’t really imagine the world back then as compared to today, 33 years later.
South Africa was in the throes of Apartheid, and I remember that quite vividly because the signs of it were all around. Signs like “Slegs Blankes” (Whites Only) littered parks, camping sights, cinemas, restaurants, restrooms and every other bit of everyday life as I knew it. My dad who was a doctor worked at a practice that has two entrances. One for whites and one for non-whites. My dad later later moved away from that practice and opened his own practice for non-whites only. (more…)
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