What version of SQL is SSMS scripting for?
Recently (honestly it’s been a few years now) Microsoft split the lifecycle for SSMS out from the general SQL Server ... Continue reading
2019-03-25
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Kenneth Fisher
Disabling and enabling triggers
I tend to feel that a lot of people who use triggers don’t really understand them. That said, every now...
2019-03-20 (first published: 2019-03-06)
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Hugo’s SQL Server Execution Plan Reference
I’m a big fan of T-SQL Tuesday. Each month there is a host who comes up with a topic, and...
2019-03-18
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SQL Homework – March 2019 – Reconfigure tempdb
You’ve heard of tempdb right? It’s one of the system databases. All of the system databases are important but poor...
2019-03-15 (first published: 2019-03-04)
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Dipping into the Cookie Jar: T-SQL Tuesday #112
This month our intrepid host for T-SQL Tuesday is Shane O’Neill (b/t). He’s asked us to talk about our cookies....
2019-03-12
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DBA Myths: Can a differential backup get bigger than the full backup?
The thing about DBA Myths is that they are generally widespread and widely believed. At least I believed this one...
2019-03-04 (first published: 2019-02-14)
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Dem queries
Dem queries, dem queries, dem slow queries,
Dem queries, dem queries, dem fast queries,
Dem queries, dem queries, dem big queries,
Now write...
2019-02-27
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Using the Microsoft Authenticator app to log into Azure
So I was trying to work on a blog post about the new truncation error this morning and realized I...
2019-02-25
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Why do I (they) own that database?
Ever looked at the list of databases and wonder why you own one of them? Or why some other user...
2019-02-20
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Disabling Indexes
Indexes are probably the number one tool we have to improve performance. That said, there are times when we want...
2019-02-18 (first published: 2019-01-28)
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Blogs
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Cloud Data Driven User Group 2025 – Slides & Scripts
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Leading Through Change: Guiding Teams in Times of Uncertainty
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Show/Hide number of rows in table
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Replication from IBMi DB2 to MS SQL
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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