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Last night I submitted my application to volunteer for the 2014 PASS Summit Program Committee.
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2014-01-22
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2013-12-31
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2013-10-17
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Encryption Decryption Routine
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2013-09-17 (first published: 2013-09-11)
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Free Tools For The DBA
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2013-09-05
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Bank Holiday Fun - DDL Trigger
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2013-08-30 (first published: 2013-08-26)
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Trigger Status
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2013-08-20
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Windows Failover Cluster Monitor
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2013-08-19 (first published: 2013-08-09)
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Disaster Recovery - Part 1 - Possibly Almost Everything But the Kit
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2013-07-26
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First Time Speaker
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2013-07-25
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Question of the Day
Checking Identities
The DBCC CHECKIDENT command is used when working with identity values. I have a table with 10 rows in it that looks like this:
TravelLogID CityID StartDate EndDate 1 1 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 2 2 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 3 3 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 4 4 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 5 5 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 6 6 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 7 7 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 8 8 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 9 9 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 10 10 2025-01-11 2025-01-16The docs for DBCC CHECKIDENT say this if I run with only the table parameter: "If the current identity value for a table is less than the maximum identity value stored in the identity column, it is reset using the maximum value in the identity column. " I run this code:
DELETE dbo.TravelLog WHERE TravelLogID >= 9
GO
DBCC CHECKIDENT(TravelLog, RESEED)
GO
INSERT dbo.TravelLog
(
CityID,
StartDate,
EndDate
)
VALUES
(4, '2025-09-14', '2025-09-17')
GO
What is the identity value for the new row inserted by the insert statement above? See possible answers