2012-01-30
73 reads
Editorial
Try Some New Tools This Month
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Today Andy suggests you try some new tools and see if you can increase your productivity.
2012-01-27
280 reads
Healthy Work Habits
Today Steve Jones talks a little about the work environment for IT workers. We ought to pay attention and ensure we are taking care of ourselves.
2012-01-26
225 reads
No Cloud for Stack Exchange
The use of cloud computing isn't in the plans for the Stack Exchange network of sites? Steve Jones thinks they have a pretty cool reason not to use the cloud and he thinks you ought to have a similar view at work.
2012-01-25
72 reads
Back to Vegas
The DevConnections conference in the spring of 2012 is in Las Vegas, and Steve Jones is glad to be going.
2012-01-24
98 reads
Jiggly Code
There should be some method to your madness when fixing code. At least, that's what Linus Torvalds thinks and Steve Jones agrees.
2012-01-23
229 reads
Thoughts on Survival
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Are you in a survival job? Read Andy's thoughts and let us know.
2012-01-20
175 reads
Better Than Batman
Steve Jones praises Bill Gates today, and the work he is doing to make the world a better place.
2012-01-19
173 reads
BYOD
In the future we may be required to bring our own devices to work. Does that make sense? Would you want to get an allowance and purchase your own laptop?
2016-03-18 (first published: 2012-01-18)
244 reads
The Virtual Lab
Today Steve Jones talks about the need for a lab for each of us, and a few ways you can build one.
2012-01-17
221 reads
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...
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
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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