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IndiaAI Mission: Transforming India with AI Power!

IndiaAI Mission: Empowering India Through Artificial Intelligence🔹 Mission VisionThe IndiaAI initiative aims to harness the power of artificial intelligence to drive innovation, improve accessibility, and catalyze socio-economic development across...

2025-06-04

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IndiaAI मिशन: भारत को AI की ताकत से बदलने की तैयारी!

🔹 मिशन विज़नIndiaAI पहल का उद्देश्य आर्टिफिशियल इंटेलिजेंस की शक्ति का उपयोग करके नवाचार को बढ़ावा देना, पहुंच को बेहतर बनाना और देशभर में सामाजिक-आर्थिक विकास को गति देना है।...

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Query multiple Azure SQL Databases

I was sick of changing context in Azure Data Studio while cleaning up things discovered in our vulnerability assessments. Changing things via PowerShell I wanted to be cautious with...

2025-06-04 (first published: )

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Stack Overflow & AI

I won’t try to pretend otherwise, I’ve had some mixed feelings about Stack Overflow for a long time. I think the concept of the place, ask a question, get...

2025-06-04 (first published: )

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An Unusual Identity

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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

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