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Three Times a Day

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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SUM([value]) and highest record type

By Pete Bishop

Given a record mapping table: Id Initial Updated 1 1 2 2 3 4...

should i expect data types in task->export data from ssms?

By stan

Hi i recently exported a number of "to be purged resultsets " to .tsv's. ...

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Question of the Day

Multiple Defaults

In my SQL Server 2022 database, I run this code:

ALTER TABLE dbo.OrderHeader 
ADD ModifiedStamp DATETIME CONSTRAINT df_Created_Getdate DEFAULT GETDATE()
GO
I decide I need to add auditing to another table and run this:
ALTER TABLE dbo.Tracker
ADD Created DATETIME CONSTRAINT df_Created_Getdate DEFAULT GETDATE()
GO
What happens with these statements?

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