john.arnott (10/21/2012)

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Good topic for a follow-up QOD (hope I don't steal any thunder here):

If the code presented had one more statement amnd asked for the max(Ident)...

CREATE TABLE IdentTest

( Ident INT NOT NULL IDENTITY (1,1)

, varfield varchar(100)

)

INSERT INTO IdentTest VALUES ('xyz') -- <== Added to original

DBCC CHECKIDENT ('IdentTest',RESEED,100)

INSERT INTO IdentTest VALUES ('abc')

SELECT max(Ident) FROM IdentTest

What would be the output?

Wouldn't it be the same (100)?

If not, WHY NOT? (hard to make a QOD an essay question, but if you got this far, give it a shot).