SQL Server 2000 Table Hints

As you advance in your skills as a Transact-SQL developer or SQL Server database administrator there will come a time when you need to override SQL Server's locking scheme and force a particular range of locks on a table. Transact-SQL provides you with a set of table-level locking hints that you can use with SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements to tell SQL Server how…

SEO Corner – Hiding Content from the Search Engines

Question: We have recently inserted an "encryption code" in our home page at http://www.imagelair.com to keep most from viewing our source code (meta tags/keywords). The code works fine, but we noticed that our stats program reflected that about half of the hits to the default page every hit the "encrypt" page (our home page now). My question is this. Will the search engines index our…

Home -N- Linens Site Review

The deadline for reviews of the Home -N- Linens site has passed, and it's time to take a look at the results. Here's what DevWebPro readers had to say about the Home -N- Linens site.