SQL Server with Access: Free Webinar on Feb. 10th

Join our SQL Server with Access free webinar hosted by the Microsoft Access User Group (AUG) meetings this Feb. 10th. These free webinars are open to the public – from novice to professional developers – to learn new MS Access tricks.

Two Ways of Placing varbinary(max) Data into Files

In this article I will show two ways of placing into files data that is stored in varbinary(max) columns.  It is typical to have an application provide the interface through which to get files in and out of the database.  However, what if you want to extract a bunch of those files…

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Six Tips for Getting your Database Design Off to a Good Start

The database is the anchor of any application that has to transact against data.  If the database design has errors or is incomplete, the application will sooner or later begin to fail or become problematic, either because it will replicate database design bugs or because it will store or update…

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How to Customize the Default Table View in SQL Server Diagrams

When designing a SQL Server database, I like to define foreign-key (FK) relationships using database diagrams.  I also like the tables in my diagrams to display the column names and their data types, for easy review and also because data-type mismatches are a common error when defining FKs and I…

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