New SQL Server book on Disaster Recovery
James Luetkehoelter has announced his book on SQL Server Disaster Recovery is complete. It is published by aPress and due...
2008-02-04
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Blog Posts
Notes on the South Florida Code Camp
I attended the South Florida Code Camp this past Saturday and it turned out to be quite an event. More...
2008-02-04
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What's wrong with Linq to SQL
There's a lot of buzz in the development community about LINQ in general, and for those that do data access...
2008-02-04
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Windows Server 2008 RTMs
This is a small surprise, mainly because it looked like only Visual Studio 2008 was actually going to make the...
2008-02-04
611 reads
Ask for SQL Server 2005 SP3
In case you haven't seen this elsewhere, if you want Microsoft to release SP3 for SQL Server 2005. It's time...
2008-02-03
938 reads
SQL Server MVP Randy Dyess webcast on SQL Server 2008 Security
SQL Server MVP Randy Dyess has a short webcast which provides the highlights of SQL Server 2008 security.He includes some...
2008-02-03
614 reads
SQL Server MVP Andy Leonard on .NET Rocks!
SQL Server MVP Andy Leonard is on the latest edition of .NET Rocks! If you're not familiar with .NET Rocks!,...
2008-02-01
749 reads
The Importance of Verifying Database Backups Regularly
Yesterday, as I was pulling into my driveway, my front left tire gave. Thankfully, I was going really slow and...
2008-01-31
1,665 reads
A Long Overdue Database Security Rant
I've been dealing with a security product from a security company in recent days that breaks best practices with respect...
2008-01-30
2,302 reads
First Heroes Happen Here (HHH) Comic
Microsoft and Seagate have partnered togethered to put together an IT Heroes comic (daily even). The first one is here:
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2008-01-29
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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