Monthly Archives: May 2020

Daily Coping 5 May 2020

Posted on May 5, 2020 by way0utwest

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 →

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Choosing Sequences Over Identity

Posted on May 5, 2020 by way0utwest

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 →

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May the Force Be With You

Posted on May 4, 2020 by way0utwest

I’ve never done much more than give a passing smile when I see all the posts and notes about May 4th from geeks around the world. I was a huge Star Wars fan as a child, and the original is … Continue reading →

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Executing PoSh line by line in VS Code

Posted on May 4, 2020 by way0utwest

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I’ve had to relearn this trick multiple times, so I decided to write a post. The simple answer is … Continue reading →

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