heading over on a train this afternoon. Will be at Bits from Wed am until Sat lunch

This might also help: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Age+Calculation/153796/

What is important to you? Do you want your employer to have a purpose? Perhaps you care or find motivation in what the company does. Maybe the company pays well,...

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Re-using a connection is possible. I used extended events and thought I saw multiple logins, which could be in the same session. I should test using a proxy, but a...

Not to start any debate or controversy on the topic, but I thought this was a fun April Fools joke I caught Saturday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoGRlS53U_k

If I get the timing, then yes. I don't believe a batch insert "reserves" any numbers, so it's possible.

If you are concerned, I'd do this
- dbcc reseed...

From a quick test, it seems as though each step logs into SQL Server separately. This means the session is different. That makes sense, as each step is independent, can...