2018-02-07
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Kenneth Fisher
SQL Homework – February 2018 – Work with security
This month let’s create some security!
Create logins: GUI 5 pts/Script 5 pts
Create a SQL login and a Windows authenticated login....
2018-02-05
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The difference between blogging about something you know, and something you are learning (Love blogging! Live!)
Close but you need to blog about learning while blogging about the difference of blogging when you are learning something...
2018-01-31
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How To: Install SQL Server on an Azure VM
Last month I demonstrated creating an Azure VM with SQL installed using one of the default templates. While this is...
2018-01-29
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What’s dbo?
Don’t you hate it how certain words (well, acronyms in this case) get reused to mean multiple things? dbo seems...
2018-01-29 (first published: 2018-01-22)
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Who should own the database?
TL;DR; SA, or if you are really paranoid then you can create a disabled SQL login with minimal permissions and...
2018-01-25 (first published: 2018-01-15)
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Help it takes forever to open the SQL Server Log!
Just to be very clear, I’m talking about the SQL Server Log, not database logs. Sometimes this is called the...
2018-01-24
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How to read a technical blog
There are thousands, tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands of blogs out there on all sorts of topics. If...
2018-01-17
303 reads
Fun with sp_rename
Currently the only way to rename objects in SQL Server is to use sp_rename. Although that may be changing in...
2018-01-11
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2018-01-10
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Blogs
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Cloud Data Driven User Group 2025 – Slides & Scripts
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Forums
Building AI Governance and Policies- First Steps
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Building AI Governance and Policies-...
Simple delete causes table scan on other tables with foreign key
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Show/Hide number of rows in table
We have a report that has multiple tables that list the top 15 performers...
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