In-Memory OLTP and the Identity Column
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One Year Later
Wow! It’s been one year since I launched my blog, and my how things have changed.
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2013-09-24
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The Case of the NULL Query_Plan
As a DBA, we're often asked to troubleshoot performance issues for stored procedures. One of the most common tools at...
2013-09-06 (first published: 2013-09-03)
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How to Tell If Your Users are Connecting to the Availability Group Listener
You've spent a lot of time planning and building out a new SQL Server 2012 environment complete with Availability Group...
2013-08-29 (first published: 2013-08-27)
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PASS Summit 2013 - You Ain't From Around Here Are Ya?
I know what y'all are thinkin', what's Charlotte got to do with SQL Server? Just hear me out. There's a...
2013-08-20
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Are You the Primary Replica?
UPDATED -- Jul 3, 2015 -- To verify database exists, per comments by Konstantinos Katsoridis. Thanks for finding the bug!
In my recent adventures...
2013-07-23
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Setup an Availability Group with Multiple Subnets in VMware Workstation
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2013-07-16
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VMware vSphere Storage Performance - Thick vs Thin Provisioning
Industry experts will tell you that virtualization of your environment is not done to improve performance, it's done to make...
2013-06-25
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Investigating Plan Cache Bloat
SQL Server includes a DMV, sys.dm_exec_query_stats, that returns performance statistics for each query plan cached in memory. However, it can...
2013-05-28
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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