A Nice Refund
This editorial was originally published on Sept 12, 2006. The IRS makes a $318mm mistake and Steve talks about the need to ensure that you don't do something similar.
2011-10-10
139 reads
Editorial
The DR Test Schedule
Planning for disaster recovery entails a lot of different items, but testing is an important one. If you don't test your plans, you can't be sure they will work. This Friday Steve Jones asks how often your test.
2011-10-07
189 reads
Come Find Me at the Summit
Steve Jones reminds you to network anytime you're at and event, and especially a large conference like the PASS Summit.
2011-10-06
44 reads
An Awesome Job
Life is awesome, and Steve Jones things everyone can find something awesome in their jobs.
2011-10-05
442 reads
How do you learn the advanced stuff?
Today Steve Jones talks about learning those advanced features that you don't get the chance to use in your daily work.
2011-10-04
323 reads
Staying High
Today we have a guest editorial from Tim Mitchell. Tim talks about the need to stay motivated in your career after an event ends.
2011-10-03
104 reads
Closing Out Replies
This editorial was originally published on Oct 17, 2006. It is being republished as Steve is at SQLBits 9 today. Should we change the way we deal with posts and replies? Answer today.
2011-09-30
68 reads
What’s In Your (Junk) Drawers?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Andy talks today about he various items that collect around your work space. Are they useful? should you be cleaning things up? What does this say about you?
2011-09-29
106 reads
Bits Bound
Steve Jones talks about his trip to SQL Bits 9: Query Across the Mersey, which begins today.
2011-09-28
83 reads
Know when to hold 'em
It's time for the SQLServerCentral Party at PASS and Steve Jones talks about the event.
2011-09-27
72 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