SQL
Implementing SQL Server Full-Text Search In An ASP.NET MVC Web Application With Entity Framework
calendar_today 13 May 2016 08:13
The search facility on this site has been rudimentary at best. I have recently upgraded it to take advantage of the Full-Text Search feature in SQL Server. Although it is still a basic implementation, it is a vast improvement on the search system that existed before, which was based on Entity Framework dynamically generating SQL LIKE clauses. This article describes how I got SQL Server Full-Text Search up and running.
Finding Yesterday in SQL and C#
calendar_today 12 July 2010 21:27
Here's something that comes up often in forums - How To Find Yesterday in SQL or C#. Piece of cake, if you know how, but tricky if you don't. And especially tricky to get the right value if you are not clear on the requirement.
Preventing SQL Injection in ASP.NET
calendar_today 19 August 2009 07:28
I, and many other contributors to the forums at www.asp.net find examples of code posted on a daily basis that are vulnerable to SQL Injection attacks. We continue to exhort beginners (and some more experienced programmers) to code against them. This article examines just how serious a flaw vulnerable coding can be, and what you should do about it.
Sql JOINS and the Sql Server Management Studio Query Designer
calendar_today 28 November 2007 13:19
There are a whole bunch of articles, blog entries and tutorials that seek to explain how SQL JOINS work. Some of them are excellent, and others are just confusing. The reason I am adding my go at trying to clarify JOINS to the mix is to highlight how proper use of the tools available to you can seriously reduce the chances of getting the JOIN syntax or type wrong. Since JOINS are all about how to relate data from one table to another, I thought it appropriate to illustrate the subject using Parents and Children (who may, or may not be related to eachother). So let's meet the families.
Getting the identity of the most recently added record
calendar_today 05 June 2007 22:13
The built-in functions @@Identity and Scope_Identity() are designed to retrieve the most recently added record's autoincrement identity value from Access and Sql Server respectively. Here are some usage examples.
Insert Single Value With Stored Procedure ASP.NET C#
calendar_today 03 April 2007 14:16
Code for calling stored procedure in the Code-Behind to insert a single value from a text box.
