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There is an old joke that upgrading to the latest SQL Server is wasted on some DBAs, because they will still stick mainly to what worked in SQL Server 2005. This type of DBA is becoming rare, in my experience, but there is still some truth in the idea that many of us don’t get the ‘full power’ from our SQL Server tools. We work with them as they come, ‘out of the box’, and use only a fraction of their features. The time to explore ‘new stuff’, at least as much as we’d like to, remains elusive.

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We all have these days as a DBA,  hopefully they are few and far between for most of us. This morning I walked into the office and found a stack of emails saying that a developer had responded to a support ticket and modified the values in one of our tables and got it wrong. OK, […]

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Identities and Sequences IV

When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?

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