Sometimes a change is as good as a break : T-SQL Tuesday #134
James McGillivray (blog|twitter) wants us to give him a break. Well. Actually I guess he wants to know how we ... Continue reading
2021-01-12
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SQL Homework – January 2020 – Create an End of Year/New Year checklist.
It’s a brand new year and hopefully it will be better than last year. While that may be particularly true ... Continue reading
2021-01-11 (first published: 2021-01-05)
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SQL Homework – January 2020 – Create an End of Year/New Year checklist.
It’s a brand new year and hopefully it will be better than last year. While that may be particularly true ... Continue reading
2021-01-05
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Hope!
2020 was a rough year. We’ve had friends and family leave us. Jobs lost. Health scares a plenty and that’s ... Continue reading
2020-12-31
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SQL Homework – December 2020 – Participate in the Advent of Code.
Christmas. Depending on where you live it’s a big deal even if you aren’t Christian. It pervades almost every aspect ... Continue reading
2020-12-03
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How do I tell what compression level my tables/indexes are?
It’s been a while since I worked with compression and the other day I needed to check which of my ... Continue reading
2020-11-27 (first published: 2020-11-17)
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A quick and dirty scan of a list of instances using a dynamic linked server.
Note: This is not exactly a dyanmic linked server. It just gets dropped and recreated in a loop. I recently ... Continue reading
2020-11-23 (first published: 2020-11-12)
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Adding a user to an Azure SQL DB
Creating a user is simple right? Yes and no. First of all, at least in SSMS it appears you don’t ... Continue reading
2020-11-19 (first published: 2020-11-05)
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I get by with a little help from my friends : T-SQL Tuesday #132
Taiob Ali (blog|twitter) is our host for TSQL Tuesday this month and he’d like us to talk about how our ... Continue reading
2020-11-13 (first published: 2020-11-10)
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SQL Homework – November 2020 – Help!
If you ask any senior IT person What is the most important tool you have? there is a decent chance that ... Continue reading
2020-11-10 (first published: 2020-11-03)
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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