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Wot no SCOPE_GUID() function??
08 June 09 03:23 PM | MartinBell | 2 comment(s)

When you have a database generated GUID value how do you find out what it is?...

Filed under: Identity, NEWSEQUENTIALID(), GUID, NEWID(), OUTPUT

IDENTITY a fraud?
12 May 09 06:58 PM | MartinBell | 1 comment(s)

One of the tips Tony gave during his talk at last weeks Manchester User Group was not to start your identity values at the default (zero) but start them at the lowest possible value for the datatype you are using. This is a great tip as it doubles the range of possible values and it happened to coincide with some thoughts I had for a connect suggestion....

Filed under: Identity