Speaking updates
If you are anywhere near St. Louis next Wednesday night, I will be speaking at the St. Louis Visual Basic...
2008-02-16
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Blog Posts
Is SQL Server Dead?
Someone sent me this note about a talk they'd had at their user group and the guest speaker mentioned the...
2008-02-14
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Getting Geeks (IT Pro's) To Talk at User Group Meetings
User groups have to be about more than technical content if you want to sustain them over the long term,...
2008-02-14
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Should Code Camp/SQLSaturday Be Free?
Recently I posted about making sponsorship work to lay out some ideas for events that are seeking sponsors. My friend...
2008-02-13
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Change Data Capture
I started working through some labs for my SQL Server 2008 class and one of the labs was on the...
2008-02-12
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Computed Columns Published on SSC
I wrote this article on computed columns to support some of the teaching I do for my beginner to intermediate level...
2008-02-12
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Speaker Eval Form, Part 2
My friend Mike Antonovich was kind enough to really go through my draft and provided some great feedback which I've...
2008-02-12
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Init from Backup Published on SSC
This article shows how to initialize a subscriber from a backup in SQL 2005. It's a niche technique, but it...
2008-02-11
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Kalen Delaney SQL Server Internals DVD
I did end up pre-ordering the first DVD on SQL Server internals by SQL Server MVP and SQL Server internals...
2008-02-11
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Making Sponsorship Work at Community Events & User Groups (My Wish List)
This topic came up during the speaker reception at the South Florida Code Camp and while I've posted here and...
2008-02-11
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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