PASS Update #22 (Speaker Bureau – Call for Comments)
One of my big projects this year is to build a speaker bureau, so in this post I’m going to...
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Permon Counters Missing Windows 64 Bit SQL Server 32 Bit
For reasons beyond the scope of this post I have an environment where I have Windows 2003 R2 64 bit...
2010-01-11
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That DARN TOMCAT
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GodMode - in Windows 7
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Try it and you will find a lot of stuff there...
2010-01-10
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House of Commons Justice Committee Related to The European Union's Data Protection-Retention Directives
Just this past week on Tuesday afternoon (a link to video of Parliament online, please forward to about half way through),...
2010-01-10
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Implement a stack in SQL Server using stored procedures
In this article I will show you how to implement a stack. In programming, stacks are a great way to...
2010-01-10
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Professional Communications
This past week I had the opportunity to have lunch with a vendor at his clients’ site. As a part...
2010-01-10
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2010 Goals
It seems like every blog I read has a list of goals posted for the year. This seems like a...
2010-01-09
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New HTPC Build with 32nm Intel Core i3 530
Since Intel announced and released the new 32nm Core i3 processors and compatible H55 chipset, Socket 1156 motherboards this week,...
2010-01-09
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Book Review: The Billion Dollar Game
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Simple delete causes table scan on other tables with foreign key
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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