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For this Friday's poll, Steve Jones asks about what absolutes you might have in your job.
Absolutely (Not?)
For this Friday's poll, Steve Jones asks about what absolutes you might have in your job.
Absolutely (Not?)
For this Friday's poll, Steve Jones asks about what absolutes you might have in your job.
Absolutely (Not?)
For this Friday's poll, Steve Jones asks about what absolutes you might have in your job.
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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