Consider All the Possibilities When Troubleshooting
When you are troubleshooting, the rule is if you've checked the obvious possibilities and still haven't solved the problem, it's...
2013-01-28
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Brian Kelley
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Cash Over Credit
What does cash over credit have to deal with security? An awful lot, as it turns out.
Personal Story: Mere days...
2013-01-17
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Observe Carefully When Things Are Running Fine
Cross-posted from The Goal Keeping DBA blog:
As a worker in information technology, I’ve always been a big proponent of studying systems...
2013-01-14 (first published: 2013-01-10)
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Rename the SQL Server Management Studio shortcut
Jorge Segarra (blog | twitter) was giving a presentation and he remarked on how the SQL Server Management Studio shortcuts have...
2013-01-11
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Speaking at Midlands PASS in February
On February 12th I'll be giving a SQL Server Security Refresher for Midlands PASS at Microstaff IT in Cayce/West Columbia,...
2013-01-10
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Re-Awarded as a Microsoft MVP
Yesterday (January 1) I received the email indicating I was re-awarded as a Microsoft MVP, once again in SQL Server....
2013-01-02
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Looking Forward to the New Year - Professional Goals
Most folks make New Year's resolutions of things they want to do over the course of the next 364/365 days....
2013-01-01
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Are You a Chessplayer?
I was having a twitter coversation with @dataartisan about chess. He remarked that playing on-line with random folks didn't strike him...
2012-12-17
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Are Your Protecting Your DB Backups?
Folks have cited the recent InformationWeek article on how South Carolina's Department of Revenue was hacked because the SC state government...
2012-11-27
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Server Level Security
We'll discuss surface area later in the week. Today let's talk about if you're able to connect to SQL Server....
2012-11-09 (first published: 2012-11-06)
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Question of the Day
The Maximum Value in the Identity Column
I have a table with this data:
TravelLogID CityID StartDate EndDate 1 1 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 2 2 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 3 3 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 4 4 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 5 5 2025-01-01 2025-01-06I run this code:
SELECT IDENT_CURRENT('TravelLog')
I get the value 5 back. Now I do this:
SET IDENTITY_INSERT dbo.TravelLog ON
INSERT dbo.TravelLog
(
TravelLogID,
CityID,
StartDate,
EndDate
)
VALUES
(25, 5, '2025-09-12', '2025-09-17')
SET IDENTITY_INSERT dbo.TravelLog OFF
I now run this code.
DBCC CHECKIDENT(TravelLog)
GO
INSERT dbo.TravelLog
(
CityID,
StartDate,
EndDate
)
VALUES
(4, '2025-10-14', '2025-10-17')
GO
What is the value for TravelLogID for the row I inserted for CityID 4 and dates starting on 14 Oct 2025?
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