Serious Hacking
The biggest government hack ever occurred recently. At least until the next one happens.
2019-03-19 (first published: 2015-10-20)
294 reads
Editorial
On Learning from Experience and Misfortune
Phil Factor on learning from mistakes. Preferably other people's.
2015-10-19
130 reads
Bad Management
Bad managers are everywhere, but we can improve and help them with some ideas from other companies. That's if we, as an organization, value our staff.
2019-03-21 (first published: 2015-10-19)
277 reads
Deploying tech to the cloud
There is a world of difference between technology originating in or designed for the cloud and technology that predates but can run in the cloud.
2015-10-12
122 reads
The Reality of Data Governance
Uncovering how the data 'works' in a business is harder than you might think. You can't get this knowledge second-hand from the IT department. You have to speak to the business at large. However, many people are fearful of the 'bod from IT' and the change that their IT initiatives will bring.
2015-10-12
119 reads
Contract to Hire
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that looks at the way some companies look to hire new workers.
2015-10-09
187 reads
2019-03-28 (first published: 2015-10-07)
172 reads
2015-10-06
206 reads
What's a Code Smell?
Poor patterns and practices are code smells. Steve Jones notes we have plenty in T-SQL.
2023-03-22 (first published: 2015-10-05)
559 reads
What Can You Do?
Security alerts and concerns are serious, but that doesn't mean that everyone will treat them that way.
2015-10-05
88 reads
Blogs
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,...
The Mystery of the Locked-Up Database -Scooby Dooing Episode 6
No Scooby-Doo story is complete without footprints leading to a hidden passage. In SQL...
Forums
Don't Forget About Financial Skills
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Don't Forget About Financial Skills
Building a Simple SQL/AI Environment
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Building a Simple SQL/AI Environment
Checking Identities
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Checking Identities
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