SQL Server Express Edition Comparison Table

Express Edition Products for SQL Server Compared
Feature	SQL Server 2005 Express Edition	SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services	SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Toolkit
Database Engine	x	x
Client Components	x	x	x
Full Text Search		x
Reporting Services		x
Management Studio Express		x	x
Business Intelligence Developer Studio			x

Comparation between the SQL Server Database Between:

1. SQL Server 2005 Express Edition

2. SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services

3. SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Toolkit

SQL Server 2005 Management Studio Express

Free to download, free to redistribute, free to embed, and easy for new developers to use immediately, a simple but powerful development environment for building data-driven applications.

The advanced query optimization engine of SQL Server 2005 delivers fast performance with full-text search. Load databases easily through the XCopy feature. Native XML support ensures that your Web environment can easily interoperate with other applications through Web services.

SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services provides a complete, server-based platform for creating, managing, and delivering traditional and interactive reports. Easily create sophisticated reports with tables, charts, and graphics, and then embed them in applications.

Configure SQL Server Express to dynamically tune database parameters to respond to changing usage characteristics. SQL Server Express delivers user updates directly using Microsoft Update, easily plugs in to most enterprise management environments, and supports either silent installs or GUI-based setup and installations.

SQL Server Express Edition

List of DBCC in SQL SERVER 2005

DBCC stands for database consistency checker. We use these commands to check the consistency of the databases.
Example, maintenance, validation task and status checks.

DBCC CHECKALLOC - Check consistency of disk allocation.
DBCC CHECKCATALOG - Check catalog consistency
DBCC CHECKCONSTRAINTS - Check integrity of table constraints.
DBCC CHECKDB - Check allocation, and integrity of all objects.
DBCC CHECKFILEGROUP - Check all tables and indexed views in a filegroup.
DBCC CHECKIDENT - Check identity value for a table.
DBCC CHECKTABLE - Check integrity of a table or indexed view.
DBCC CLEANTABLE - Reclaim space from dropped variable-length columns.
DBCC dllname - Unload a DLL from memory.
DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS - Remove all clean buffers from the buffer pool.
DBCC HELP - Help for DBCC commands.
DBCC INPUTBUFFER - Display last statement sent from a client to a database instance.
DBCC OPENTRAN - Display information about recent transactions.
DBCC OUTPUTBUFFER - Display last statement sent from a client to a database instance.
DBCC PROCCACHE - Display information about the procedure cache
DBCC SHOW_STATISTICS - Display the current distribution statistics
DBCC SHRINKDATABASE - Shrink the size of the database data and log files.
DBCC SHRINKFILE - Shrink or empty a database data or log file.
DBCC SQLPERF - Display transaction-log space statistics. Reset wait and latch statistics.
DBCC TRACE - Enable or Disable trace flags
DBCC UPDATEUSAGE - Report and correct page and row count inaccuracies in catalog views
DBCC USEROPTIONS - Return the SET options currently active
DBCC deprecated commands

New Feature in MySQL 6.0

1. The new Falcon transactional storage engine.

2. Support for additional Unicode character sets: utf16, utf32, and 4-byte utf8. These character sets support supplementary Unicode characters; that is, characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

3. BACKUP DATABASE and RESTORE statements for backup and restore operations.

4. Optimizer enhancements for faster subqueries and joins, including batched index access of table rows for sequences of disjoint ranges by the MyISAM and InnoDB storage engines.

5.The syntax for the LOCK TABLES statement has been extended to support transactional table locks that do not commit transactions automatically. Following LOCK TABLES ... IN SHARE MODE or LOCK TABLES ... IN EXCLUSIVE MODE, you can access tables not mentioned in the LOCK TABLES statement. You can also issue LOCK TABLES statements that acquire transactional locks many times in succession, adding additional tables to the locked set, and without unlocking any tables that were locked previously. When using LOCK TABLES with IN SHARE MODE or IN EXCLUSIVE MODE, tables are not unlocked until the transaction ends.
Transactional locks acquired with LOCK TABLES are released when the transaction ends, either explicitly with COMMIT or ROLLBACK, or implicitly due to a statement that causes implicit commit or because the connection ends.

6. Support for extended comments for tables, columns, and indexes.

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SQLyog GUI is the most powerful MySQL manager and admin tool, combining the features of MySQL Query Browser, Administrator, phpMyAdmin and various other MySQL Front Ends and MySQL clients in a single intuitive interface.

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LINQ to SQL in C#

This article provides an introduction to employing LINQ to SQL within a Windows Forms application.
Article will address the incorporation of LINQ to SQL into a win forms project, how to use LINQ to SQL to select, insert, update, and delete data, and how to use LINQ to SQL to execute stored procedures.

The article shows some simple examples of LINQ to SQL; from it you can see how easy it is to query against single and related tables and to write filtered queries, execute stored procedures, perform aggregation, and how to insert, update, and delete records from the database.


DataClasses1DataContext dc = new DataClasses1DataContext();
var q =
from a in dc.GetTable()
where a.CustomerID.StartsWith("A")
orderby a.OrderDate ascending
select a;
dataGridView1.DataSource = q;

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LINQ tutorials convert a Linq Query resultset to DataTable object

This LINQ tutorials convert a Linq Query resultset to DataTable object.
The tutorials attached with the source code

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LINQ Begginer Tutorials

In this tutorial, we looked at the current state of today's data access story. Then we looked at how LINQ and the new language features in C# 3.0 solve these issues by providing us with a consistent set of Standard Query Operators that we can use to query any collection that implements IEnumerable. In this installment, we only focused on in-memory collections of data in order to avoid the confusion that most people have when mixing LINQ with DLinq and XLinq, but rest assured these will be covered in the future installments of this article. Furthermore, because LINQ is just a set of methods that adhere to the naming conventions for the Standard Query Operators, anybody can implement their own LINQ based collections for accessing any other type of data.

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