No More Lottery
Steve Jones talks about the lack of a big payday for tech workers. Not that most of us were expecting one.
No More Lottery
Steve Jones talks about the lack of a big payday for tech workers. Not that most of us were expecting one.
No More Lottery
Steve Jones talks about the lack of a big payday for tech workers. Not that most of us were expecting one.
Using the NOWAIT option with the SQL Server RAISERROR statement
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Little Security Issues
There's a trend for smaller laptops called netbooks to make traveling with computers easier. However these devices may result in more security issues. Steve Jones comments on some of the problems.
Look at the size of my BCHR
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Little Security Issues
There's a trend for smaller laptops called netbooks to make traveling with computers easier. However these devices may result in more security issues. Steve Jones comments on some of the problems.
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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