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Best Practices for Data Warehousing with SQL Server 2008

There is considerable evidence that successful data warehousing projects often produce a very high return on investment. Over the years a great deal of information has been collected about the factors that lead to a successful implementation versus an unsuccessful one. These are encapsulated here into a set of best practices, which are presented with particular reference to the features in SQL Server 2008.

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Identity Defaults

What happens when I run this code? 

CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
     id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
     somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO

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