Superpowers Revealed
Like many of you out there, I’m constantly looking for new things to learn. A new skill, a new hobby,...
2013-11-16
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Blog Posts
A Tour of the Transaction Log: Part 3 Reading Log Backups
In part one and two of our Tour of the Transaction Log articles we focused on reading events from the...
2013-11-15
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Checking your users and groups in Command Window.
As a DBA, I work closely with the Infra guys to manage domain accounts. Now and then, there comes a...
2013-11-15
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Fill Factor, Why Do You Taunt Me? Part 1
Like all the arbitrary numbers we hear in the SQL community such as the 30% fragmentation and 1000 pages. These...
2013-11-15
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Friday Followup For November 15, 2013
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2013-11-15
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Reblog: November 8 to November 14
I’ve always been a fan of the feeling when I find an old blog post that’s got just the information...
2013-11-15
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SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for November 2013
I have made a number updates and bug fixes, including some additional columns in some of the queries for all...
2013-11-15
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SSRS Map Layers Parameter
With the new Map control in SSRS 2008 R2 there are three different map types, Road, Aerial, and Hybrid. If...
2013-11-15 (first published: 2013-11-11)
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The Failed Job
I was looking into a failed job on a SQL Server 2008R2 instance. My first step was to check the...
2013-11-15 (first published: 2013-11-07)
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Use application lock to synchronize T-SQL code
Application lock can be used to synchronize T-SQL code, you can control if the session is able to run the...
2013-11-15
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Blogs
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
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Odd Sequences
What values are returned from this code?
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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