Identifying Unused Objects in a Database
Longtime author Leo Peysakhovich answers one of the most common questions seen in discussion areas around the world: how do you identify unused objects?
2006-09-11
26,510 reads
Administration
Copying Database Backups to an Alternative Location
Learn how to use ALERTs, a SQL Agent job and a stored procedure (SP) to create a copy of your critical database backups on another physical machine as soon as the database backups are created.
2006-09-08
4,926 reads
Controlling Jobs
Have you ever needed to build a job that could run within a certain period of time? Those long maintenance operations, like index rebuilds, need to fit within certain windows of time. New author Joe Doherty brings us a great technique for ensuring those jobs do not run over into your business day and impact normal operations.
2006-09-06
8,364 reads
2006-09-04
1,021 reads
Getting Warmer - How to Implement Hot Failover in .NET 1.1 with SQL 20
What happens if you try to specify a Failover Partner in .NET 1.1?
2006-08-30
1,245 reads
Clustering SQL Server 2005
With Windows 2003 now clustered, you're ready to begin to clustering SQL Server 2005. In this presentation, you'll see how to cluster SQL Server 2005 and some best practices in how to configure the SQL Server cluster after the fact.
2006-08-29
2,982 reads
2006-08-24
1,366 reads
Clustering Windows 2003 R2
In this presentation, you'll learn step-by-step how to cluster Windows 2003 R2. Brian shows you how to configure and cluster a two node cluster, preparing it for any future services like SQL Server or Exchange.
2006-08-23
2,131 reads
Windows and SQL Server 2005 Clustering Architecture
Before you start learning how to cluster, this video will show you the basics on how clustering in Windows 2003 and SQL Server 2005 works. Brian shows the basic architecture on clustering as well as the checklist that you would want to follow before starting to cluster.
2006-08-17
2,648 reads
Maintaining SQL Server 2005 Databases - Backups
In this presentation for SQL Server newbies, you'll learn how to maintain your SQL Server databases by backing them up regularly and reindexing them. This topic assumes you know nothing about SQL Server and also covers some of the decisions you'll have to make when you decide you want to backup your database through maintenance plans.
2006-08-15
2,658 reads
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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