Identity Columns Can’t Be Updated: #SQLNewBlogger
I’m not sure I knew identity column values could not be updated. I ran into this while trying to solve a problem recently and had to check the error...
2026-02-25
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The Voice of the DBA
Rolling Back a Broken Release
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward or back from the point when you discover a problem. You can watch the episode...
2026-03-13 (first published: 2026-02-23)
262 reads
Advice I Like: In 100 Years
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will be proved to be wrong, maybe even embarrassingly wrong. A good question to ask yourself...
2026-03-06 (first published: 2026-02-20)
585 reads
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently about this and decided to explain it to myself, but in a slightly different way....
2026-03-02 (first published: 2026-02-18)
464 reads
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me, just a few years after Redgate acquired SQL Server Central. I’ll let the words speak...
2026-02-20 (first published: 2026-02-13)
291 reads
Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how to set a FK constraint between two tables. The tool seemed to make it easy,...
2026-02-27 (first published: 2026-02-11)
306 reads
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report, based on surveys and research we do every year. I have found it very interesting...
2026-02-10
73 reads
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I decided recently to see if I could find a way to more easily automate things....
2026-02-18 (first published: 2026-02-09)
512 reads
A New Word: Dolorblindness
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s pain, only ever searching their face for some faint evocation of it, then rifling through...
2026-02-06
27 reads
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to determine how many people were protecting data in dev databases and how often. TDM creates...
2026-02-16 (first published: 2026-02-04)
248 reads
Blogs
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...
The FinOps Lifecycle: From Budgeting to Reporting
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps long enough teaches you two universal truths: That’s exactly why I...
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query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS
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SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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