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Redgate Tool Tips
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Restoring Master on a Windows 2019 / SQL Server 2019 Cluster
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Five facts about the SQL Server Model Database
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Moving from application automation to true DevOps by including the database
This article explains the challenges of DevOps automation for databases, starting with how to manage the database, as a set of SQL scripts, in the version control system, and then how to start building an integrated and automated script pipeline for continuously testing and deploying database schema changes, alongside the application code.
Growing Outside of the English World
The world is bigger than one country, and Steve is trying to remember that.
Stairway to SQL Server Virtualization Level 2 - The Ideal SQL Server Virtual Machine Architecture
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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