Negative identity values don’t suck
A quick(er) post this week, in response to Greg Low’s blog post from a few weeks ago titled “Don’t start identity columns or sequences with… Read More »Negative identity values don’t suck
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A First Look At Normalization
Phew! There’s a lot to take in with data types, collation, precision, scale, length, and Unicode, and we’re just getting warmed up. This week’s post is over 2,000 words long!
Over the last three weeks, we’ve gone fairly deep into data types, and now we are going to see how they come into play with normalization.
If we go back to the first post in this series, I mentioned normalization, and then apparently I forgot about it in the next two posts. What you didn’t see is that I was talking about it all along.
On clustered indexes, clustering keys and primary keys
Many smart people have spoken about clustering keys and primary keys before, so here’s a less smart take on the topic. Let’s define some things… Read More »On clustered indexes, clustering keys and primary keys