Good God, that looks so much easier than screwing around with the system.Data classes. Most of my databases are built with SQL Express. I have the free copy of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 2008 ...

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A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...

Often, designing databases and speeding up SQL Server queries are treated as a kind of abstract problem: A just "Find this problem, apply this solution" approach to problem solving. In practice, ...