SQLSaturday Update (Aug 1, 2008)
SQLSaturday #5 in Olympia is progressing nicely. 85 registered, venue locked in, and work under way for fund raising via...
2008-08-01
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SQLAndy
Tool Review: Hamachi VPN
Maybe I haven't looked at the right products, but two years ago when we needed a VPN solution there wasn't...
2008-07-31
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Operation Hands Free
Recently I was driving home and as I made that turn into the sub-division where I live, over the course...
2008-07-30
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Blogging on SQLServerCentral.com
Recently my friend Steve (managing editor of SSC) posted to his blog about The Bad Karma Project that has to...
2008-07-30
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Tool Review: Servers Alive
Not all of us work at companies big enough to justify the expense/time it takes to implement something like MS...
2008-07-29
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Rebuilding Stats: Twice or Not at All Posted on SSC
Rebuilding Stats was published yesterday on SSC, some nice comments posted to it as well. The main point of the...
2008-07-29
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IP6 Addresses Could Break Your DB
I saw this post from Rick Strahl about IP6 Addresses in Vista breaking some code, and it immediately made sense...
2008-07-28
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Tool Review: Microsoft Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel
It's downright common these days to download programs as ISO images, but XP doesn't have a native viewer for them....
2008-07-27
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Blogging Thoughts - Part 2
Earlier I wrote Blogging Thoughts - Part 1 where I discussed the various approaches I've seen in blogs (blogging when you...
2008-07-24
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Tool Review: TaskSwitchXP
For longer than I care to count I've used the Alt-Tab Powertoy from MS to get a nicer view of...
2008-07-23
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Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
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...
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Identities and Sequences III
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Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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