Recently I was trying to set up Transactional Replication in SQL Server 2000 from a back-up copy. After a few hacks and work arounds and lot of trouble-shooting I was able to get it up and running. I documented the steps I followed.  Check out the article here.

Recently I had to ship out chunks of data into an excel sheet for some queries. I wrote an article on it. Feel free to check it out here.

Sometimes we need to pass an array to the Stored Procrdure and split the array inside the stored proc. For example, lets say there is a datagrid displaying sales orders, each sales order associated with an orderid (PK in the Sales table). If the user needs to delete a bunch of sales orders ( say 10-15 etc)..it would be easier to concatenate all the orderid's into one string like 10-24-23-34-56-57-....etc and pass it to the sql server stored proc and inside the stored proc, split the string into individual ids and delete each sales order. There can be plenty of...