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Today we have a guest editorial where Grant talks about being effective and practical in your world.
Heaps in SQL Server: Part 3 Nonclustered Indexes
Uwe Ricken continues his series on heaps. This time he demonstrates a common scenario where the query against a heap is faster than a clustered index.
Aiming for Better Data Governance
Today Steve gives a reason why your organization might consider improving its data governance.
Stairway to Biml Level 7 – Populating the Database for a Custom Biml Framework
In this next level of the Stairway to Biml, we look at a custom framework in Biml.
Power BI Histogram Example using DAX
Companies use a Bell Curve approach to measure performance. As part of this approach they create a histogram. A histogram is a statistical concept and according to Wikipedia it is defined as a graphical distribution of the numerical data. A histogram is made of several bins and bins can be considered a range of values or a benchmark
When SQL Server Performance Goes Bad: Rogue Indexes
Phil Factor explains how SQL Monitor helps focus performance tuning efforts on the tables and queries where 'rogue indexes' might be a significant problem, and then how to identify both 'missing' indexes that might be beneficial to the overall workload, and those that are unused or duplicated, and so are doing more harm than good.
SQL Server Wait Stats Monitoring with PowerShell
In this article we add another module to the PowerShell monitoring process to capture wait stats for all monitored SQL Server instances.
SQL Server 2017 Installation Error with KB2919355
Recently I was installing SQL Server 2017 and I could not believe a simple installation took up my whole day. I was installing an instance on one newly built Windows 2012 R2 server. After clicking next a few times, I got an error: a rule failure, for KB2919355. I downloaded the KB2919355 as mentioned in […]
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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