First Time Attendees At User Groups
Several years ago during the first iteration of the Orlando SQL Server Users Group I talked a friend into attending....
2008-09-23
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Blog Posts
WSUS 3.0 - Query to Return Systems That Haven't Checked in Within the Week
I've been playing with WSUS lately and I've been less than satisfied with the reporting. Since the information I need...
2008-09-23
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Mechanical Blog Posts
Mechanical posts are ones that are either auto-generated, or manually input with no real additional work put into them - an example...
2008-09-22
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The Agile Cult
Why did I write this? I got challenged by Andy Warren to write a bit about why I wrote something....
2008-09-22
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The quiet is deafening...
It's been a while since I've written a blog post that wasn't a user group announcement. Here's what I've been...
2008-09-22
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Laptops Part 1
I've been using a Dell Latitude for a looong time, probably going back to 2000 or 2001. Decent machine - though...
2008-09-21
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DBA team building
Whenver we start a somewhat big IT project, it is natural for us to build a team dedicated to the...
2008-09-20
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Business of Software 2008 - Noah Wasserman
I'm starting a series of blog posts from the Business of Software conference
that I attended last week in Boston. If...
2008-09-18
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What's Your Favorite Trek Episode?
Most of my posts here are reasonably serious, and really this one is too, but a but of humor mixed in....
2008-09-18
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Business of Software 2008 - Richard Stallman
I'm starting a series of blog posts from the Business of Software conference
that I attended last week in Boston. If...
2008-09-17
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Blogs
Did You Really Name That Default?
By alevyinroc
Ten years (and a couple jobs) ago, I wrote about naming default constraints to...
Monday Monitor Tips: A New Analysis Page
By Steve Jones
We have multiple teams (8) working on Redgate Monitor. Some work on the Standard...
Case Studies: Real-World Success Stories of FinOps Implementation
By HeyMo0sh
Learning any kind of theory is easy, but adapting FinOps and watching it rescue...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
The Problem Isn't Always Your Query or Schema... Sometimes It's Hidden Assumptions
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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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