Does this help?

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/PBM/68602/

It's not a question of the origin of the number, but the fact that it's arbitrary-generated, and as such isn't necessarily a PK. In the paper world, when someone generates...

Les Cardwell (3/1/2010)

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Steve,

I'm shocked! :w00t: The only purist rationalization for a surrogate PK is when no 'natural key' exists. Otherwise, it's just a throwback to mainframe days when files...

There are a few places that do a Code Camp/.NET event with a SQL Saturday. No reason not to do them together if you can find the space.

Space is certainly...

In the environment where I had separate accounts, it was mainly for security from viruses. We didn't want some trojan or virus to have elevated rights, so the idea was...

I was listening, but had to stop when it went to overtime to replace a faucet. I was watching the tweets to keep up with what was happening. It was...

Good point....

Roger L Reid (3/1/2010)

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Steve, I'm a bit surprised at this statement from you, since you're not just another procedural developer lost in a declarative world. You've been writing...

Doh! Didn't realize that. My apologies to Boston and the staff the Beth Israel.

No idea. The team working on this asked, so my guess is they are somehow trying to determine if this will sell licenses.

I thought that was the case. The last person to edit the job ended up as the owner, and it often used their credentials for things.

Very, very annoying

Scott Arendt (2/26/2010)

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I really hate Daylight Saving Time.

Even if you store job schedules in UTC (which we do), you still need to handle changes related to...

philnewell (2/26/2010)

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The decision on using UTC dates should be resolved in the design stage of any system. IF! the application in ONLY ever going to use local datetimes, then...

I agree here. It's still GMT to me, but I was worried everyone would correct me to be UTC!

Now...

I don't know, but I'll pass this along.