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A New Word: Zverism

zverism – n.  the wish that people could suspend their civility and indulge in the physical side of each other first, sniffing each other’s hair like dogs, staring unabashedly...

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2025-03-28 (first published: )

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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
GO

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