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Daily Archives: May 5, 2020
Daily Coping 5 May 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here. Today’s tip is to make a bucket list of … Continue reading
Choosing Sequences Over Identity
When I was building software as a full time job, the choices for automatically generating surrogate keys were the identity property and the NEWID() function. At that time, GUIDs were too cumbersome to deal with, and I often used identity … Continue reading
