Arthur Fuller explores the value of identity columns and the usefulness of their arbitrary values and discusses ways to use SQL Server 2000's IDENTITY_INSERT setting.

i have a syslog collector setup to push all events from many processes into a database. taking one process, squid, i'm trying to put the Message column from the SystemEvents table into another ...

As we saw in the last article, the SQL SELECT statement has the widest variety of query options, ... MIN—A function that returns the lowest non-null value in a column; ...

Right-click the column header immediately to the right of the second column and select "Insert" to add a new column, if necessary. As an example, if the data exists in columns A and B, right-click ...

Since 2022, home values in areas most threatened by rising seas gained only 2 percent, while similar homes on safer ground rose 7 percent. The difference in appreciation amounts to roughly $20,000 ...

For instance, if you would like to print column labels at the top of every printed page, you could enter $1:$1 in the Rows to repeat at top box.. Once you are done with the job of setting up your ...