15 years of experience with Identity columns
An identity column is an auto incrementing columnAn identity column is typically used as a primary keyA primary key that’s...
2014-06-04
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An identity column is an auto incrementing columnAn identity column is typically used as a primary keyA primary key that’s...
2014-06-04
1,076 reads
There are some cases when you need to use a PIVOT function in SQL but you cannot use a CTE....
2014-06-04
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I’ve noticed a recent trend with many presentations and articles on Power BI and Excel functionality. Many of these presentations...
2014-06-03
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Access Granted or Not? is my latest Question Of The Day and I think it represents a pretty good troubleshooting...
2014-06-03
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I was interested to see that the online voting system has changed this year to one powered by Simply Voting....
2014-06-03
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I’ve created a simple query performance logging tool for Analysis Services, called the SSAS Performance Logger. The tool allows you...
2014-06-03
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I haven’t posted much on books lately, here are two that are different:
Inside the Food Network. Definitely some gossip, but...
2014-06-03
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We will actually be getting our final Service Pack!
The information can be found here. You may still want extended support...
2014-06-03
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The 2014 PASS election cycle begins today when voting opens for the Nomination Committee (NomCom) and I'm one of eleven...
2014-06-03
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I wrote a PowerShell script recently to actually accomplish a task I that I needed. What’s more, this was the...
2014-06-03
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This month’s blogging party is hosted by Jeff Ianucci – his challenge is to...
As for me, I'll keep writing whenever time permits. I don't expect every post...
By Steve Jones
This is an interesting invitation this month. Jeff Ianucci is a new host, and...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Switching Schemas I
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Enforcing Unique Customer Emails When...
I run this query:
SELECT s.name AS schemaname , o.name AS objectname FROM sys.objects o INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.schema_id = o.schema_id WHERE o.name = 'Beer'I get one row back for an object named dbo.beer. There is an ETL schema and both of these are nonpartitioned tables. I run this code:
ALTER TABLE dbo.beer switch TO etl.beerWhat happens? See possible answers