Are There That Many GUIDs?
Steve Jones talks about a recent survey that showed more people use GUIDs as primary keys than identity values.
2015-03-24 (first published: 2010-10-12)
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Editorials
First Episodes
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren where he looks back at how things have changed.
2015-03-23
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Microservices, SOA and Service Broker
If you want to implement a service-oriented architecture on Windows, Service Broker is still your best choice, argues Phil Factor.
2015-03-23
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Microsoft and R
R is an interesting language and one that might become more important to data professionals in the future. Microsoft is also making an investment here.
2015-03-19
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2015-03-18
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Computational Biologist
A job Steve Jones has never heard of is using data to improve medical treatments.
2015-03-16
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2015-03-16
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The Design Investment
How much of an investment should you make in learning design? Steve Jones talks about why we should learn how to do it right.
2015-03-11 (first published: 2010-09-29)
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Limitations of MongoDb
This article looks at two critical limitations suffered by MongoDb compared with SQL Server.
2015-03-10
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Don’t Understand? You’re About to Learn Something
Learning opportunities abound, but they can be stressful, as shown in today's guest editorial.
2015-03-09
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Blogs
Running a Local LLM On Your Laptop Resources
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone that attended my sessions at VS Live San Diego yesterday. It...
Differences Between xp_readerrolog and sp_readerrorlog: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I was creating a question on sp_readerrorlog and realized that this procedure is different...
Why sys.fn_dblog Is Undocumented And Why It's Still There
By SQLPals
Why sys.fn_dblog Is Undocumented And Why It's Still There Why sys.fn_dblog...
Forums
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The Disabled Index
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Question of the Day
The Disabled Index
I run this code on SQL Server 2022.
CREATE TABLE Drink
(
drinkid INT NOT NULL
CONSTRAINT DrinkPK PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED,
drinkname VARCHAR(20),
rating NUMERIC(2, 1)
)
GO
INSERT INTO Drink
(
drinkid,
drinkname,
rating
)
VALUES
(1, 'Margarita', 4.5),
(2, 'Mojito', 4.3),
(3, 'Old Fashioned', 4.7),
(4, 'Martini', 4.4),
(5, 'Cosmopolitan', 4.2)
GO
ALTER INDEX drinkpk ON dbo.drink DISABLE
GO
SELECT * FROM dbo.Drink
GO
What is the result? See possible answers