SQL Family Feud Survey - Technical questions
The first 100 people get to decide the data set. Give us the first thing you think of.
2016-01-13
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Press Release
SQL Server Luxembourg - SQL Azure
The SQL Server Luxembourg User Group invites you to join us at our next event, where Pieter Vanhove from Microsoft will be presenting a double bill: Microsoft Azure SQL Database at Your Service and Run Your DBA Morning Checklist with Policy-Based Management.
2015-11-26
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Webinar: Unit Testing in SQL Server with tSQLt
Join tSQLt developer, Sebastian Meine, and Steve Jones as they answer your questions and show you how to unit test T-SQL code.
2015-11-19 (first published: 2015-11-10)
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Database Lifecycle Management Webinar
Join Steve Jones for a Database Lifecycle Management webinar on Nov 17 at 11am EDT. Watch to see how smooth a database development pipeline can be.
2015-11-17 (first published: 2015-11-09)
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SQL Solutions Group Marks 5th Anniversary with SQL FreeCon
To mark five years in business helping companies across the United States with their SQL Server needs, SQL Solutions Group will host a day of free SQL training Tuesday, Oct. 27, in Seattle.
2015-10-16
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Shorten Audits, Tighten Security with Minion Enterprise
Minion Enterprise can help you with security management in an enterprise.
2015-10-06
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Call for Speakers - SQL Saturday Pittsburgh
SQL Saturday #440 is coming to Pittsburgh on October 3, 2015. Now is the time to submit if you'd like to speak at the event.
2015-07-31
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Download tSQLt Today and Start Unit Testing
The latest version of tSQLt is now available with some SQL Prompt snippets to help you get started.
2015-07-30
1,759 reads
SQL Monitor Custom Metric: Table size (MB)
This metric is useful if you want to know exactly how much physical space a particular table is taking up, including the size of its indexes.
2015-07-21
2,899 reads
MS15-058: Vulnerabilities in SQL Server could allow remote code execution
A vulnerability has been released that can affect SQL Server 2008, 208 R2, 2012, and 2014.
2015-07-15
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Question of the Day
An Unusual Identity
What values are returned when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest2
(
id NUMERIC(10,0) IDENTITY(10,10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
INSERT dbo.IdentityTest2
(
somevalue
)
VALUES
( 'Steve')
, ('Bill')
GO
SELECT top 10
id
FROM dbo.IdentityTest2 See possible answers