SQL Server Magazine July 2000

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Replication
This month, we show you how to implement SQL Server 7.0's immediate-updating subscription feature so you can monitor Subscribers and replicate changes back to the Publisher. Plus, we show you how to use T-SQL to develop custom stored procedures for copying data.
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[Focus]

Custom Replication

Using T-SQL to develop custom stored procedures for copying data gives you maximum flexibility in a method that combines features of snapshot and transactional replication.

Two-Way Replication with SQL Server 7.0

With SQL Server 7.0's immediate-updating subscription feature, not only can you can replicate changes from a Publisher to Subscribers, but you can replicate changes on the Subscribers back to the Publisher.




[Features]

Build a Better Search Engine

Implement SQL Server 7.0’s full-text search capabilities to avoid time-consuming table scans, enable advanced pattern matching, and deliver quick results in high-performance, robust corporate applications and Web sites.

Maintaining Hierarchies

SQL Server doesn't inherently support hierarchies, such as those between employees and managers, but you can add columns to your database tables to hold hierarchical information, then use triggers and T-SQL queries to manage that data.

Referential Integrity in SQL Server

Learn how to use SQL Server 2000's new methods of enforcing referential integrity in your databases.




[SQL Server Savvy]

Questions, Answers, and Tips

Read about SQL Server 2000's new cascading Declarative Referential Integrity support, how to change default client-side Netlib settings when you don't have the SQL Server Client Configuration Utility installed, and more.




[Editorial]

Scaling Up vs. Scaling Out

Scaling out might be a viable solution for database implementations that have reached the limits of SMP scalability.




[Reader to Reader]

Readers' Tips and Tricks

Readers share their tips for finding and inserting missing records, for using cursors to perform operations on multiple objects, for expanding the Databases node in Enterprise Manager, and more.




[SQL Server Q&A]

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A Microsoft program manager answers your SQL Server questions.




[SQL Seven]

SQL Server White Papers

Michael Otey lists his favorite SQL Server white papers, all of which you can find on Microsoft’s Web site.




[SQL Server/Office Integration]

Programming SQL-DMO from Access

Learn how to build a custom application with Access projects and SQL Distributed Management Objects (SQL-DMO).




[Inside SQL Server]

Multiple Instances

SQL Server 2000 brings you the long-awaited capability to run multiple SQL Server installations on one machine.




[Web Dev]

Introducing Queued Components

A new feature of COM+—queued components—offers benefits to developers of Web applications on the SQL Server platform.




[Solutions by Design]

Logical Modeling

Working from the concept model, take the next step in database design and manually create a logical model of your database.




[T-SQL Black Belt]

Using Joins to Modify Data

In the debut T-SQL Black Belt article, SQL Server MVP Itzik Ben-Gan demonstrates how you can use joins and subqueries to modify a table based on data in another table.




[Mastering OLAP]

Analysis Services Actions

A new Analysis Services feature, called actions, can link structured or unstructured data or commands to almost any part of an OLAP cube.