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Tuesday, September 09, 2008 6:00 PM

Nullity: The Gift (of Nothingness) That Keeps On Giving

Almost three years after the post was originally published in October of 2005, Mark Johansen, author of A Sane Approach to Database Design (an approach I trust it's clear I favor) has left a terrific comment on the Do Not Fear NULLs article which is worthy
Posted by Ward Pond | 0 Comments
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:45 PM

CTP 6 of SQL Server 2008 Is Now Available For Download

The latest CTP of SQL Server 2008 is available for download at the Microsoft Connect website, here . The list of new features in this release is pretty impressive: Progress-Based Management: policy violation alerts, policy import, running and evaluating
Posted by Ward Pond | 0 Comments
Wednesday, February 08, 2006 6:00 PM

Finally, An Answer (and a mea culpa) For Adam Machanic

In SQL Server, if you build an index on a column, and that column is NULL in a particular record, there WILL be a pointer to that row in the index.
Posted by Ward Pond | 0 Comments
Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:00 PM

Slight Ado About Nothing: More On NULLs

More on NULLs: a reader asks if NULLs slow down searches.
Posted by Ward Pond | 3 Comments
Saturday, October 29, 2005 9:58 PM

Database Design: Do Not Fear NULLs

A brief discourse on what NULLity means, how it works in the database, how to use it, and examples of its misuse.
Posted by Ward Pond | 8 Comments
 
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