Author Archives: ph1lqu1nn

Searching for underscores with LIKE

Posted on January 14, 2022 by ph1lqu1nn

I got caught out by a Gotcha which has caught me out many times and hopefully wont again ( but it will). I was looking for a specific piece of text within a sql module in a Database, simple right! … Continue reading →

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SQL Server and sending messages to Slack. ( or how I stopped worrying about emails) Part 3

Posted on December 24, 2021 by ph1lqu1nn

In Part 1 and 2 of this series I demonstrated how to create a Slack Integration and then use Azure Data Studio to Test the integration. These will need to be completed for the following SQL Server implementation to be … Continue reading →

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SQL Server and sending messages to Slack. ( or how I stopped worrying about emails) Part 2

Posted on December 24, 2021 by ph1lqu1nn

This is part 2 of a set of articles Part 1 which details the setting up of the Slack Integration can be found SQL Server and sending messages to Slack. ( or how I stopped worrying about emails) Part 1 … Continue reading →

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Part 1 of a series of 3. Details how to create a Slack Bot. Later parts of the series explain how to use Azure Data Studio and SQL Server to send messages to this Slack integration Continue reading →

Posted on December 24, 2021 by ph1lqu1nn | 1 Comment

Subqueries for XML blobs without self-referencing

Posted on December 18, 2021 by ph1lqu1nn

One of the issues I see several times within SQL Server is people creating SQL Subqueries that reference the parent query so that an XML blob can be created. In this example The simple table query returns the table contents … Continue reading →

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Auditing Your Database Changes

Posted on September 11, 2013 by ph1lqu1nn

SQL Server can capture Database level Trigger information using XML.  I personally use this on my home PC’s because I’m poor and can’t afford one of those amazing DB Source control products that are out there on the market. I’m … Continue reading →

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Recursive XML branches

Posted on August 19, 2013 by ph1lqu1nn

One of the main features of XML is that it handles hierarchical data structures.  I agree that so does SQL either using the hierarchy variable or creating a Recursive CTE.  but nothing compares to the simplicity  of the XML format … Continue reading →

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Enforcing XML Document Structure

Posted on November 16, 2012 by ph1lqu1nn

by default the xml variable supports a content structure of xml this is very useful if you are constructing an xml blob.  It works for typed and untyped code, and it has it’s place. The following code shows an xml … Continue reading →

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Schema visibility using xml_schema_namespace

Posted on November 1, 2012 by ph1lqu1nn

One of the issues I’ve faced is the constant referencing and rereferencing of XML Schemas that are stored against a database.  the xml_schema_namespace dmv helps with this.  it takes 2 parameters.  the schema of the database object XML Schema and … Continue reading →

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modifying data in XML a really clunky solution. (no I mean REALLY Clunky)

Posted on October 11, 2012 by ph1lqu1nn

If you are trying to replace the value of an element that does not exist if can be problematic, i have not found a nice way to do this, if any one does please let me know. So to get … Continue reading →

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