Cam-Graph
A new project from Microsoft Research has Steve Jones interested. It deals with large data sets to perform graphical modeling. The storage mechanism has Steve Jones interested.
2011-04-25
102 reads
Editorial
Happy Easter 2011
It's Good Friday and the Easter holiday weekend with a number of countries having a bank holiday. Steve Jones is on vacation and providing us with a blooper reel for today.
2011-04-22
84 reads
Saying Thank You
After a bad experience traveling, Steve Jones stops to recognize that despite a possible computer bug, he still recognizes that the programmers building web sites aren't making mistakes on purpose and deserve a thank you for their work.
2011-04-21
170 reads
The Mentoring Experiment
Have you ever wanted a mentor? Do you think that your career would benefit from having one? Steve Jones talks about a new experiment that he is putting in place with Andy Warren that looks to build a mentoring framework.
2011-04-20
272 reads
Careful Blogging
This editorial was originally published on Sept 22, 2005. Steve Jones talks about the dangers of blogging about your job and with your company. Be sure that you are aware of what the impact of your posts will be on your image.
2011-04-19
139 reads
Analytics or Flying Cars
We live in a great age of data and Steve Jones thinks it's a great time to be a data professional, especially if you work on your data presentation skills.
2011-04-18
150 reads
Do we do enough?
Do we, event organizers, tool vendors, concerned SQL citizens, as a community, do enough to reach people who don't know about the training available to them?
2011-04-18
96 reads
2011-04-15
141 reads
The DBA of the Future
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that talks about what DBAs might need to know in the future.
2011-04-14
684 reads
PAAS
Platform as a service, a new way of looking at applications. It's analogous to SAAS and IAAS, which can improve the efficiency of the software purchase or the hardware acquisition process. Steve Jones notes that this is something he'd like to see for database platforms.
2011-04-13
83 reads
Blogs
Advice I Like: Fear and Imagination
By Steve Jones
Fear is fueled by a lack of imagination. The antidote to fear is not...
Cloud Data Driven User Group 2025 – Slides & Scripts
The slidedeck and the SQL scripts for the session Indexing for Dummies can be...
Leading Through Change: Guiding Teams in Times of Uncertainty
By Chris Yates
Change is not a disruption in technology; it is the rhythm. New frameworks appear,...
Forums
Building AI Governance and Policies- First Steps
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Building AI Governance and Policies-...
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...
Show/Hide number of rows in table
We have a report that has multiple tables that list the top 15 performers...
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