As a developer based primarily in the Microsoft world I have over the last 10 years spent time working with four of the main Seattle produced database products: Excel, Access, SQL Express and SQL Server. In this time I have learned to find my way around each product and made use of them for my production work from small scale product catalogs to enterprise wide...

Hi, I have a table name CustUsers. In this table, there is a field name: PWD I have refreshed the production database into the test. This field has about 200 records and these records are passwords created by users from the application. When i restored the  prod database into the test,  there will be 200 passwords. I want to keep just one password for all of the...

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