Speaking at SQLSaturday #32 in Tampa on January 23, 1010
I’ll be heading to Tampa the afternoon of the 22nd for the speaker party, and then presenting Social and Not...
2010-01-07
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Blog Posts
SSC Syndication
Steve Jones at SqlServerCentral.com has created a Blog for me over there at SqlServerCentral.com. I will be syndicated there and...
2010-01-07
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Too Much Data – Idiocracy or Star Trek?
I used to think that too much data was never a bad thing. That having more information out there is...
2010-01-07
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10 Goals For 2010
As is the traditional thing to do at the beginning of a new year I'm making goals for what I'd...
2010-01-06
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Goals for 2010
So I’d planned to already have this done and published before the new year rolled around, but life got in...
2010-01-06
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Identity Values – Two things to know
I saw someone post a question recently about running out of identity values in an INT column. It happens, it’s...
2010-01-06
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Identity Values – Two things to know
I saw someone post a question recently about running out of identity values in an INT column. It happens, it’s...
2010-01-06
525 reads
PASS Summit Evaluations
The big day has arrived and all the speakers are poring over their PASS Summit 2009 evaluations, me included. These...
2010-01-06
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Picking a Blog Platform
For the past couple years I’ve been using Community Server for blogging, only because that’s the platform that’s been part...
2010-01-06
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Service Broker Basics
I'm currently implementing a Service Broker solution at a client site, and it's been an interesting challenge, because there's not...
2010-01-06
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Fear and Imagination
By Steve Jones
Fear is fueled by a lack of imagination. The antidote to fear is not...
Cloud Data Driven User Group 2025 – Slides & Scripts
The slidedeck and the SQL scripts for the session Indexing for Dummies can be...
Leading Through Change: Guiding Teams in Times of Uncertainty
By Chris Yates
Change is not a disruption in technology; it is the rhythm. New frameworks appear,...
Forums
How to use data pre-computed in previous ETL SSIS Nodes?
I'm building ETL packages in SSIS. My data comes from an OLE DB Source...
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
Why is sql doing a full scan VS seeking on the index? I've included...
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