Gareth Lennox

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Thoughts from ScaleConf

I went to ScaleConf a couple of weeks ago, and have been meaning to write about some thoughts I had, so here it is! The conference is, as per its name, primarily about scaling, and to be more specific, scaling software, and to be even more specific, a lot of the talks were about scaling […]

Don’t use @@IDENTITY

If you’re using SQL Server, and you’re inserting records into a table with an auto increment primary key, I suggest you don’t use @@IDENTITY to retrieve the previously inserted Id. Rather use SCOPE_IDENTITY(). The reason for this is that @@IDENTITY gives you the last generated Id in the current session vs. SCOPE_IDENTITY() gives you the […]