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Lookup Table Madness

(Don Peterson) Over the years I have had a number of “discussions” about the practice of creating generalized “lookup” tables for storing multiple code types in a single table. I won’t keep you in suspense about my view of this practice; the idea stems from a failure to learn and appreciate the f

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SQL MAIL Using POP3 and SMTP

(Gregory Larsen) How many times have you had problems sending SQL MAIL or SQL Agent Mail from SQL Server because the Exchange server was taken down or not working? Have you ever tried to connect up SQL Mail and/or SQL Agent mail to Exchange through a firewall or across domains, only to find out that