You can create a database under the assumption that SQL looks after all the problems of concurrency. It will probably work fine under test conditions: then, in the production environment, it starts losing data in subtle ways that defy repetition. It is every Database Developer's nightmare. In an excerpt from his acclaimed book, Alex Kuznetsov explains why it happens, and how you can avoid such problems.
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Take a look at a sample chapter and see who won copies of this book from our Question of the Day Contest.
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Longtime author here, Michael Coles, has written a new book on SQL Server 2005 Programming and has sent us a sample chapter on SQLCLR programming. Download the chapter and source code and grab this great book from your favorite bookseller.
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Cryptography and encryption are coming to many systems, including databases. Check out a sample chapter from this upcoming book.
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In thinking about the differences between the identity property and a sequence object, which of these two guarantees that there are consecutive numbers (according to the increment) inserted in a single table?
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