Apologies and Testing
First, apologies to the Database Daily readers. I'll include one in
next week's issue as well, but the links didn't work...
2005-11-15
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Blog Posts
Get MAXimum functionality
SQL 2005 provides a the new max specifier to be used with varbinary, varchar and nvarchar data types. You can...
2005-11-12
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Poll
If you haven't seen it, I started a poll in the editorial today. Check it out and give you answer:...
2005-11-11
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Day Zero
Today's the day!!!
SQL Server is being released as I type this and I'm online listening to the keynote from Steve...
2005-11-07
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Boycott Sony
In general I have been a Sony fan for most of my life, starting with the Walkmans they brought out...
2005-11-04
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Looking For Technical Editors
If anyone is interested, we are looking for people that are interested
in doing some technical editing for our magazine, the...
2005-11-02
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It's Done
I wrote the editorial today about this, but SQL Server 2005 RTM'd yesterday!!!
If you an on MSDN Subscriber, you can...
2005-10-28
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The Plame Saga...
Living in the D.C metro area it is difficult to avoid politics,
policies and policy-makers. After 9/11 it became well nigh
impossible ...
2005-10-28
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The Great Uproar and some advice
My editorial
this past week had to do with a great uproar on the interviewing piece
that ran Monday. I felt I...
2005-10-20
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On vacation!
It was busy at work after returning from PASS which means my work day continued for 2 or 3 hours after I got...
2005-10-16
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Blogs
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...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
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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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