Mentoring
I've never been much of a mentor to people, partially not having the chance, partially focusing too much on myself,...
2008-04-29
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Blog Posts
More on Mentoring
Two weeks ago I did five posts on mentoring, and based on that I received a couple interesting notes, here...
2008-04-28
1,368 reads
SQLSaturday #3 Jacksonville - Final Reminder!
Just checked the registrations and we're at 354, with plenty of room for more! Brian has been busy tweaking the...
2008-04-28
1,355 reads
Visiting the Space Coast .Net Users Group in June
My friend Ken Tucker invited me to speak on June 11, I'll be doing a short presentation on SQL performance...
2008-04-28
1,567 reads
Gotta love the Information Age
First it was CNN 24x7. Next the Internet brought us live information from around the globe.
Now this... real-time pizza tracking...
2008-04-27
1,438 reads
Orlando Heroes Launch Event
I attended this on Friday along with fellow oPASS members Mike Antonovich and Ulysses Vasquez to represent PASS, and we...
2008-04-27
1,507 reads
SQL Server in the Cloud
The April 15, 2008 edition of SDTimes (PDF download here) has some information about SSDS, the SQL Server in the...
2008-04-27
1,507 reads
Recent slate of IIS attacks - more info
The recent slate of attacks on IIS servers don't seem to be an attack directly against IIS or against SQL...
2008-04-26
2,198 reads
Cursors and high gas prices
Using cursors is a controversal topic. As a former developer, that is the way I thought about processing data at one...
2008-04-25
1,392 reads
I've got a date with an Error Log -- Error Logs Part II
Error Logs Part II -- Enumerating the error logs
In my first post on SQL Server Error Logs, I briefly mentioned using...
2008-04-25
1,749 reads
Blogs
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Finding the Next Sequence Value: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I saw a question asking about the next sequence value and decided to try...
Forums
DB Design Methods
I've read a few posts regarding what we use to design DB models and...
Auto Update Statistics not triggering on filtered indexes
I've got a table with 186,703,969 rows, about 300GB of data. There are several...
What is the difference between SQL Server and SQL Database?
I created a SQL Database in Azure Portal but I've just noticed it also...
Question of the Day
An Unusual Identity
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