A Script A Day - Day 26 - RESTART a Database Restore
Today’s script is another one based on database restores. There is a little known clause of the RESTORE DATABASE command...
2012-02-29
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A Script A Day - Day 27 - Missing Database Backups
Today’s script is one I have used many times in the past to check for missing backups. The script will...
2012-02-29
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A Script A Day - Day 24 - Object Qualification
Today’s script is one I use as an example to explain that there is method behind my standards that some...
2012-02-28
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A Script A Day - Day 21 - The HAVING Clause
Today’s post is about the HAVING clause which specifies a search condition for a group or an aggregate. HAVING is...
2012-02-27
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A Script A Day - Day 22 - Database Backup
Today’s script follows on from Day 16’s script which was about database restores. In a backwards way the script is...
2012-02-27
604 reads
A Script A Day - Day 23 - Find an Object In Job Steps
Today’s script is one which saves me a lot of time on occasion. On large systems with lets say more...
2012-02-27
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A Script A Day - Day 19 - Remove Virtual Subscriptions
Today’s script is to help replication performance. It was something I learned from my resident replication expert Paul Anderton. Below...
2012-02-25
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A Script A Day - Day 20 - User Database VLF Count
Today’s script will execute DBCC LOGINFO for all user databases. This is a script I use to monitor the number...
2012-02-25
2,633 reads
A Script A Day - Day 17 - Possible Poor Indexes
Today’s script is one I’ve taken from a job I use to collect possible poor indexes. I’ve tweeked it slightly...
2012-02-23
540 reads
A Script A Day - Day 18 - Viewing System Configuration
Today’s script is something I’ve learned today, it’s cool learning new stuff! When viewing server configurations in the past I’ve...
2012-02-23
553 reads
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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