PowerShell Tool Time: Building Help
Learn how you can customize the help for your library of scripts in this edition of PowerShell Tool Time.
Forwarded Fetches and Bookmark Lookups
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What's New in the First Public CTP of SQL Server 2019
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An Open Thank You to the Microsoft SQL Server Team
Thanks for improving the string or binary data truncated error message.
SQL Server From .Net: Using SQL Server Schema to Build a Data Set
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Security, Compliance, Data Ethics, and Breaking the “Not My Job” Mindset
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The Uninteresting But Necessary Work
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SQL Server MERGE statement usage and examples
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Renaming a Schema in SQL Server
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SQL Server v.Next is Coming in 2019
The announcement of the next version of SQL Server excites Steve.
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Forums
Auto Update Statistics not triggering on filtered indexes
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An Unusual Identity
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Question of the Day
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