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SQLSaturday Orlando on October 8, 2022

This year we’re back at our usual location on the campus of Seminole State College for SQLSaturday #1030. You may remember that last year we couldn’t use the college...

2022-08-01 (first published: )

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What's in a name? (T-SQL Tuesday #152)

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This month’s invitation is from Deborah Melkin (b|t), about venting anything you want. So let’s start this rant.

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and...

2022-07-29 (first published: )

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Perspective

I recently passed the second anniversary of the start of my stay in the hospital. A lot has happened since ... Continue reading

2022-07-28

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Identity Defaults

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Question of the Day

Identity Defaults

What happens when I run this code?

CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
     id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
     somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO

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