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SEQUENCE vs IDENTITY in SQL Server: Choosing the Right Auto-Increment

TL;DR Pick the wrong auto-increment strategy in SQL Server and you find out in production. An INT IDENTITY column hits 2,147,483,647. Replication nodes collide on the same keys.

22m ago ·dev.to

My Idempotency Guard Exists to Survive One Specific Error. That Error Made It Fail Open.

Five days ago I added a duplicate-publish guard to publish_devto.py , the script this blog's own publishing pipeline calls to go live.

• Guard implemented to prevent duplicate publications on DEV.to
• Alreadypublished() function lacked pagination mechanism
• URLError exceptions misinterpreted as safe publishing conditions

42m ago ·dev.to

My MCP Tool Fetches Before It Writes and Logs Every Change. It Never Checked Whether There Was Anything to Change.

Two fixes ago, update_article — one of the tools in this repo's MCP server — got hardened twice. The first time, because it took a bare integer article_id , PUT whatever fields you gave it straight to…

• MCP tool fetched empty data to DEV.to API with bare integers
• Hardcoded diff logged even when no changes made
• Function lacked check for any changes before updating

42m ago ·dev.to