With over 2000 participants from every industry sector across the globe, the State of Database DevOps report will help shape the business case of any team looking to implement or improve their approach to database DevOps, no matter the platform they choose to work with. Including a foreword from Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman, Customer Success Engineer at Microsoft, discover the landscape of database DevOps for 2020.
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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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