This blog post aims to provide an overview of Azure Storage Accounts. It will explain how to create them and use them effectively. Azure Storage Account Azure Storage Account...
2023-05-19 (first published: 2023-05-03)
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May 3rd represents a small but significant milestone in my career. It was 15 years ago today, on May 3, 2008, when I delivered my first public technical presentation....
2023-05-19 (first published: 2023-05-03)
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I have never been to the South Florida SQL Saturday. There have been a bunch of events, but for some reason I’ve never been to one. I was excited...
2023-05-19
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In this post we look at how you work with the Backup Encryption Feature in SQL Server.
2023-05-18
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Today, we’re diving into the world of cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, breaking them down into three categories: Reflected XSS, Stored XSS, and DOM XSS. Let’s explore these digital threats...
2023-05-17 (first published: 2023-04-10)
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2023-05-17
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I’ve had people come up to me and say “PostgreSQL is open source and therefore license free. Why on earth would I put PostgreSQL in Azure?” Honestly, I think...
2023-05-17 (first published: 2023-05-08)
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I saw someone noting that AIs shouldn’t write obituaries. Since I maintain sqlmemorial.org, I wanted to see what would happen for me. This is part of a series of...
2023-05-16
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The OS default Power Plan for Windows is Balanced Power. This can cause degraded overall performance for SQL Server. Balanced Power is a great concept to help conserve energy...
2023-05-16
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The second VMUG Ireland event of the year is taking place on the 15th of June in Belfast! When: Thursday 15th of June @ 2pm until 5pm Where: Ormeau...
2023-05-16
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By Vinay Thakur
Following up on my Part 1 baseline, the journey from 2017 onward changed how...
By Brian Kelley
In cryptography, the RSA and ECC algorithms which we use primarily for asymmetric cryptography...
By Steve Jones
In today’s world, this might mean something different, but in 2010, we had this...
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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