Next oPASS Meeting is Feb 12
For those of you in Orlando our next meeting will be held on Feb 12 from 6-8 pm at the...
2008-02-11
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Blog Posts
SQLSaturday Tampa 2008 is This Weekend (Feb 16)
The Tampa crew of Wes Dumey and Pam Shaw and many volunteers have been working on this for the past...
2008-02-11
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The Right Font
I was doing some development on my laptop tonight and I was getting fed up with the default font, Courier...
2008-02-09
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Do It My Way
Actually more it's "our way" as mentioned in Andy's post, and less my way than by committee these days with...
2008-02-08
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Thoughts on HTTP EndPoints, Schemas, and other niche features
Part of a conversation I had at the South Florida Code Camp was what I thought about various features that...
2008-02-07
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And then there was one
Windows 2008 RTM'd this week, which means that in a few weeks, at the February Launch event, there will be...
2008-02-06
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Chipotle - A Model Business? Or Just Good Food?
Had a friend forward this link to me about Chipotle and it's worth reading if you either A, like Chipotle/Mexican...
2008-02-06
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Free LINQ Book from MSPress
Introducing Linq is now available as a free download and along with chapters from Introducing ASP.Net Ajax and Introducing Silverlight....
2008-02-05
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Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting this Thursday, February 7, 2008
The Midlands PASS Chapter is pleased to announce our own Paul Shearer and Bill Stevenson as our speakers for our...
2008-02-05
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Preparing for SQL Server 2005 Certification
I never did complete my MCDBA. As I was preparing to, I transitioned to my systems architect role, meaning I...
2008-02-05
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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