Escaping from a runaway Logon trigger
Most people know that logon triggers can be dangerous if you aren’t careful. And if you didn’t know, well, logon...
2014-05-27 (first published: 2014-05-19)
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Kenneth Fisher
Microsoft’s free virtual labs
If you have spent any time looking around my site, you will notice that I love study materials and in...
2014-05-26
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DBA Myths: A table with a primary key is not a heap
Typically when you see a heading like this you know the answer is “No” or “False” but in this case...
2014-05-21
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Granting or denying permissions to all of the tables within a database
When granting or denying permissions to the tables within a database you have two options. You can either add the...
2014-05-20 (first published: 2014-05-15)
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T-SQL Tuesday #54: Interviews!
It’s T-SQL Tuesday again and this month our host is Boris Hristov (b/t). He has asked us to discuss Interviewing....
2014-05-16 (first published: 2014-05-13)
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Does SQL Server do a CHECKDB during an instance restart?
When you start up an instance do you rely on the CHECKDB entry in the error log of SQL Server...
2014-05-13 (first published: 2014-05-07)
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Why is there a sysobjects when we already have sys.objects?
Once upon a time in a version of SQL far far away we had system tables that were easy to...
2014-05-05
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Collation: Confusion
I started reading about collations after I had a recent run in with them. As I read I started to...
2014-05-02 (first published: 2014-04-23)
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Collation: Temporary objects and variables: Demonstration
I had a recent run in with collation problems and it got me started reading about them. As I read...
2014-04-30 (first published: 2014-04-21)
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DBA Myths: TRUNCATE TABLE deletes all the rows of a table instantly.
Most DBAs and developers I’ve talked to over the years have felt that TRUNCATE TABLE is an instant DELETE. However...
2014-04-30
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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