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		<title>FIX: Error message when you run a &#8220;BULK INSERT&#8221; statement on a table that does not have a clustered index in SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008: &#8220;spid1005 Error: 5243, Severity: 22, State: 1 An i &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SymptomsConsider the following scenario:In Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or Microsoft SQL Server 2008, you have a table that does not have a clustered index. You run a BULK INSERT statement on this table.In this scenario, you may receive the following error message in the SQL Servererror log file: &#60;Date&#62;&#60;Time&#62; spid1005Error: 5243, Severity: 22, State: 1.&#60;Date&#62;&#60;Time&#62;2009-02-13 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Error message when you try to install SQL Server 2008 if the path of the SQL Server 2008 installation media contains a number sign (#) character: &#8220;Could not load file or assembly &#8216;&lt;Path&gt;\Mi &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://tipsinterview.com/2012/02/09/error-message-when-you-try-to-install-sql-server-2008-if-the-path-of-the-sql-server-2008-installation-media-contains-a-number-sign-character-could-not-load-file-or-assembly-pathmi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SymptomsWhen you try to install Microsoft SQL Server 2008 from a local path or from a network path, you receive the following error message: Could not load file or assembly 'Path\Microsoft.SQL.Chainer.PackageData.dll' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.This issue occurs if the path of the SQL Server 2008 installation media [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shrinking Session State in asp.net</title>
		<link>http://tipsinterview.com/2010/10/20/shrinking-session-state-in-asp-net/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 02:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[provider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[session state]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spare cpu cycles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SQL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sql server database]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ASP.NET provides two default options for storing session state across a Web farm: a session-state provider that invokes an out-of-process session-state server, and a session-state provider that stores data in a Microsoft SQL Server database. Because both options involve storing state information outside a Web application's worker process, session state has to be serialized before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ADO.NET Entity Framework</title>
		<link>http://tipsinterview.com/2010/10/04/ado-net-entity-framework/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 06:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[object relational mapping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[orm tool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relational mapping tool]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ADO.NET Entity Framework is an ORM (Object Relational Mapping) tool and is Microsoft’s main data access strategy moving forward. Microsoft released version 1 with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 with the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. They released version 4 with Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework version 4. The product team decided to sync [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Database Interview Question: What is Index Tuning?</title>
		<link>http://tipsinterview.com/2010/03/27/database-interview-question-what-is-index-tuning/</link>
		<comments>http://tipsinterview.com/2010/03/27/database-interview-question-what-is-index-tuning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 08:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Database]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Index]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[index selection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[performance gains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[selection]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the hardest tasks facing database administrators is the selection of appropriate columns for non-clustered indexes. You should consider creating non-clustered indexes on any columns that are frequently referenced in the WHERE clauses of SQL statements. Other good candidates are columns referenced by JOIN and GROUP BY operations. You may wish to also consider [...]]]></description>
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		<title>C# Interview Questions, Part 3</title>
		<link>http://tipsinterview.com/2010/03/26/c-interview-questions-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[class]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debug]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doc switch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[line debugger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NET]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[41. What’s the difference between // comments, /* */ comments and /// comments? Single-line, multi-line and XML documentation comments. 42. How do you generate documentation from the C# file commented properly with a command-line compiler? Compile it with a /doc switch. 43. What’s the difference between and XML documentation tag? Single line code example and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ADO.NET and Database Questions</title>
		<link>http://tipsinterview.com/2010/01/06/ado-net-and-database-questions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Database]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Authentication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[connection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[La.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the wildcard character in SQL? Let’s say you want to query database with LIKE for all employees whose name starts with La. The wildcard character is %, the proper query with LIKE would involve ‘La%’. What is the role of the DataReader class in ADO.NET connections? It returns a read-only, forward-only rowset from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>.NET Interview Questions on CLR</title>
		<link>http://tipsinterview.com/2010/01/03/net-interview-questions-on-clr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[CLR Base]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dll library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[integration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Runtime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Server]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overview of CLR integration. The CLR (Common Language Runtime) integration is hosted in the Microsoft SQL Server 2005. With CLR integration, stored procedures, triggers, user- defined functions, user-defined types, and user-defined aggregates in managed code, etc can be written. As managed code compiles to native code before executing, significant performance can be achieved. The SQL [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ASP.NET Interview Questions on Database Administrator</title>
		<link>http://tipsinterview.com/2009/12/22/asp-net-interview-questions-on-database-administrator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[acceptable values]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[connection strings]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[script injection]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is &#34;Connecting to SQL Server using Integrated Security&#34; considered a best practice? Connecting to SQL Server using integrated security instead of using an explicit user name and password, helps avoid the possibility of the connection string being compromised and your user ID and password being exposed. What are the best practices to follow to [...]]]></description>
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