Minor Setup Issue with SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008 R2 on Windows 7
Microsoft’s Peter Saddow, who is a Program Manager on the SQL Server Setup team has a post in the SQL...
2009-11-02
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Blog Posts
PASS Summit 2009 – Day -1
The official start date for the summit is Tuesday, but trust me, everything kicked off on Sunday when registration opened....
2009-11-02
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DB Audit Challenge #1
Take the DB Audit Challenge - Intermediate - DB Audit Challenge #1
For those of you who have been following my recent blogs,...
2009-11-01
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PASS Summit In-flight Note
I'm on a Delta non-stop flight from Atlanta to Seattle for the PASS Summit. This is the first time I've...
2009-11-01
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SQL PASS Summit 2009 – Day Zero
For me, today was the start of a six-day SQL Server adventure at the PASS Summit in Seattle. The day...
2009-11-01
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Stored Procedure Call Tree
I was reading a post by Linchi Shea in which he demonstrates a Perl script to Find the complete call...
2009-11-01
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Two Very Important Configuration Settings For SQL Server 2005/2008
Two settings that I always enable when I install SQL Server 2005 or 2008 on an x64 production database server...
2009-11-01
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Blogging From the 2009 PASS Community Summit
Like a lot of other SQL Server bloggers, this week I will attempt to write regular blog entries each day,...
2009-10-31
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Not Attending/Presenting at SQL Connections
Given everything that has happened in the last couple of weeks, this is not surprising to those who have kept...
2009-10-31
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PASS Officers for 2010-2011 Announced
Posted yesterday at http://www.sqlpass.org/Community/PASSBlog/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/118.aspx, Rushabh Mehta is the incoming President, Bill Graziano is the VP Finance, and Rick Heiges is...
2009-10-31
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Blogs
SQL Saturday Boston Slides and Code
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone who attended my sessions today at SQL Saturday Boston 2025. I’ve...
Scaling SQL Server 2025 Vector Search with Load-Balanced Ollama Embeddings
SQL Server 2025 introduces native support for vector data types and external AI models....
Advice I Like: Fear and Imagination
By Steve Jones
Fear is fueled by a lack of imagination. The antidote to fear is not...
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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