Database Master Keys can have more than one password.
Our subject for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday blog party (#69) is Encryption, hosted by a guy with an awesome first...
2015-08-11
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Kenneth Fisher
A pattern to match correctly on a value or a NULL
As you may have noticed if you read my blog I learn a lot from trolling various forums. In this...
2015-08-05
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SQL Crossword
I decided I’d have some fun today. So for your entertainment here is my first crossword puzzle. (Word and PDF...
2015-08-03
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Some of my favorite SSMS Keyboard shortcuts
I love keyboard shortcuts. I recently mapped a keyboard shortcut to Change Connection and thought I would share some of...
2015-07-29
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Permissions Posters
I’ve been doing a lot of research recently for my permissions session and for a project at work. During said...
2015-07-27
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Filtered Index restrictions and Kendra Little’s Index Quiz
A few weeks ago I saw a tweet about Kendra Little’s (b/t) new SQL Server Quizzes. Of course I had...
2015-07-24 (first published: 2015-07-20)
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#ArgenisWithoutBorders the Sequel
Last year Kirsten Benzel(b/t) and Argenis Fernandez(b/t) did this amazing thing. They organized a campaign and raised over $13,000 for...
2015-07-22
686 reads
TSQL Tuesday #68: What is my configuration?
It’s T-SQL Tuesday again and this month Andy Yun (b/t) is our host and he has asked us to “Just...
2015-07-21 (first published: 2015-07-14)
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SSMS 2015
Yes, you heard me right. SSMS 2015. No I’m not one of those crazy recruiters who keep asking for 10...
2015-07-16
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Adding a new keyboard shortcut in SSMS.
I love keyboard shortcuts. I’d rather keep my hands on the keyboard than move back and forth to the mouse....
2015-07-13 (first published: 2015-07-06)
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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