A New Beginning
The end of another year has an early Friday poll this week from Steve Jones. What are you looking to do in 2010?
Pre Check List for 64 BIT SQL Server 2008 Cluster Installation
My tips for cluster installation with Windows 2008 and SQL 2008 on a 64 BIT server which is clustered.
A New Beginning
The end of another year has an early Friday poll this week from Steve Jones. What are you looking to do in 2010?
A New Beginning
The end of another year has an early Friday poll this week from Steve Jones. What are you looking to do in 2010?
A New Beginning
The end of another year has an early Friday poll this week from Steve Jones. What are you looking to do in 2010?
Connection strings for SQL Server 2008
A set of different connection strings for using with different providers for SQL Server.
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The Year in Review - 2009
Steve Jones looks back at 2009 and examines some of the predictions he made at the beginning of the year.
Using T-SQL to Transform XML Data to a Relational Format
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Blogs
SQL Server Journey Part 2: Modern Era (2017 – 2026) – AI/Cloud First
By Vinay Thakur
Following up on my Part 1 baseline, the journey from 2017 onward changed how...
Google Moves Up Post-Quantum Cryptography Timeline
By Brian Kelley
In cryptography, the RSA and ECC algorithms which we use primarily for asymmetric cryptography...
The Book of Redgate: No Politics
By Steve Jones
In today’s world, this might mean something different, but in 2010, we had this...
Forums
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An Unusual Identity
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Question of the Day
An Unusual Identity
What values are returned when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest2
(
id NUMERIC(10,0) IDENTITY(10,10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
INSERT dbo.IdentityTest2
(
somevalue
)
VALUES
( 'Steve')
, ('Bill')
GO
SELECT top 10
id
FROM dbo.IdentityTest2 See possible answers