2017-09-06
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Kenneth Fisher
SQL Homework – September 2017 – Create a home lab
As I wrote my post about installing the latest version of SSDT I realized that my homework posts missed something...
2017-09-05
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Creating an SSIS project
Now that SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools) has been installed the next step is to create a project. First, open...
2017-08-30 (first published: 2017-08-16)
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You might be a DBA if
I’d been trying to think of a fun post to write and an homage to Jeff Foxworth’s You might be...
2017-08-30
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Deploy an SSIS project to the SSIS catalog.
You’ve installed SSDT, created an SSIS project, created any packages you need and now you want to place that project...
2017-08-21
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2017-08-16
891 reads
Installing the (currently) latest Data Tools
I’m working on a project right now and it’s going to require me not only to refresh my SSIS skills...
2017-08-14
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Performance is bad. Did you change anything recently? No. Are you sure?
Ever have this conversation?
Dev: Hey, can you help me? The performance on my application is terrible all of a sudden.
DBA:...
2017-08-11 (first published: 2017-07-26)
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500 posts
Well, that’s something to be proud of. This is my 500th post on this blog. Not including a handful of...
2017-08-10
396 reads
Interview Patterns and Anti-Patterns Combined
It’s that time again. T-SQL Tuesday. The monthly blog party started by Adam Machanic (b/t) seven and a half years...
2017-08-08
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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