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This article was co-authored by Dimitri Furman and Denzil Ribeiro Reviewed by: Danimir Ljepava, Borko Novakovic, Jovan Popovic, Rajesh Setlem, Mike Weiner Introduction In our ongoing engagements with the SQL DB Managed Instance preview customers a common requirement has been to monitor database workload performance in real time.
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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