Setting Goals for the New Year and Beyond
I've never been a big fan of "New Year's Resolutions" for the same reason most other folks are against them:...
2006-12-29
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Blog Posts
Phone books and Indexes
On Wednesday I gave a presentation to the St. Louis Visual Basic.Net user group. I really enjoy speaking to this...
2006-12-22
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SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER
We recently received a script for a modified stored proc from a vendor. My colleague ran the script on the...
2006-12-15
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The Moto Q and Being Proactive
I am a big fan of automating whatever I can and being proactive. The more proactive you can be, the...
2006-12-14
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How to handle an invalid default database
My general recommendation for SQL Server service accounts and accounts that have sysadmin fixed server role membership is to default...
2006-12-11
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Midlands PASS Chapter is official
A group of us met on Thursday, December 7th, 2006, and voted to approve the bylaws and a motion to...
2006-12-11
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Jason Haley recently began posting his interesting finds again
Jason Haley used to post his Interesting Finds about every day, if not multiple times a day. The interesting finds...
2006-12-09
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SysInternals Tools Updated
Several SysInternals Tools have been updated. One of the big updates was to the PSTools Suite - now you can pass...
2006-12-09
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Windows 2000 Resource Kit Tools Available
If you're like me and rely a lot on the resource kit tools, you may have found that it's relatively...
2006-12-09
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Log Buffer #22: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
Welcome to the 22nd edition of Log Buffer, a
weekly compendium of postings and news from database-related blogs across the...
2006-12-08
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Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: Intelligent Alert Thresholds
By Steve Jones
At the recent Redgate Summit in Chicago, I demo’d (lightly) the ML based Alert...
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
Forums
String_agg not working as needed
I'm trying to get this string_agg to put all the 'comments' into one result...
Vectors in SQL Server 2025
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Odd Sequences
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Question of the Day
Odd Sequences
What values are returned from this code?
CREATE SEQUENCE NumericSequence
AS NUMERIC(5,1)
START WITH 1.0
INCREMENT BY 0.1;
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
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