Greg Larsen Choosing between CLR and T-SQL stored procedures: a simple benchmark In this short article, Greg Larsen performance benchmarks alternative CLR-based and T-SQL stored procedure solutions for retrieving operating system file information. He also assesses other... 24 April 2007 6 min read
Phil Factor Reading and Writing Files in SQL Server using T-SQL SQL Server provides several "standard" techniques by which to read and write to files but, just occasionally, they aren't quite up to the task at... 10 April 2007 10 min read
Phil Factor Writing to Word from SQL Server Never a man to walk away from a challenge, Phil Factor set himself the task of automating the production of Word reports from SQL Server,... 06 March 2007 7 min read
Phil Factor Robyn Page SQL Server Excel Workbench The need to produce Excel reports from SQL Server is very common. Here, Robyn Page and Phil Factor present practical techniques for creating and manipulating... 06 February 2007 15 min read
