Introduction Recently, I had the task of analyzing a varchar field for special characters. The field contained text entered by the user with a standard US keyboard; however, the proprietary software was breaking up the text and delimiting it with characters whose ASCII values were above 127. Eyeballing the text that I dumped using a […]
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What values are returned from this code?
CREATE SEQUENCE NumericSequence
AS NUMERIC(5,1)
START WITH 1.0
INCREMENT BY 0.1;
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
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