Steve Jones thinks Microsoft is making a fundamental security mistake in the way they build features for the various editions of SQL Server. Read today's editorial and see if you agree.
2014-11-03 (first published: 2009-12-21)
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Determining the best performance value you can get for your effort is not as straightforward as you might think.
2014-11-03
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I don’t know who started this pattern, as I’ve seen it in a few places. It could have been Sebastian...
2014-11-03
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This Friday Steve Jones has another fun poll. A question on the geek costume that might excite you the most.
2014-10-31
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2014-10-31
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I was working on a demo recently and needed to show that a little monitoring can help you catch schema...
2014-10-29
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What do people do when their job doesn't require a lot of technical skills? Steve Jones has a few thoughts.
2014-10-29
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Salaries for data professionals have risen quite a bit, according to the latest salary survey. That's good for those of us working with SQL Server.
2014-10-28
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2014-10-27
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2014-10-24
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By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
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CREATE SEQUENCE NumericSequence
AS NUMERIC(5,1)
START WITH 1.0
INCREMENT BY 0.1;
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
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