2015-08-03
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Editorial
How To Keep Up with SQL Server
It can be a challenge to keep up with the rapidly evolving SQL Server platform. Andy Warren has a few ideas today.
2015-07-31
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The Security Payoff
An invitation to hack United's IT systems has resulted in vulnerabilities being found and hackers rewarded for disclosing the issues.
2015-07-30
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Hiring for Culture
Steve Jones discusses the decision to hire someone that fits in with your culture at work, and what that means.
2015-07-29
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Visualizing in Space
An amazing visualization of basketball players has Steve Jones encouraging you to find your own pet project and showcase some skills.
2015-07-28
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What We Want and What We'll Pay For
The challenges of getting enough resources for our projects aren't always apparent.
2015-07-27
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No Downtime Deployments
Can you deploy your database changes without any downtime? Steve Jones has a few notes.
2015-07-27
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Is Skynet Coming?
The poll this week looks to the future and artificial intelligence. Steve Jones wonders if we'll ever really see this.
2015-07-24
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The Evolving DBA
The job of the DBA is constantly evolving, but one thing has always been critical: access to data.
2015-07-23
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There Are Always Constraints
We must learn to deal with the reality of our situation, along with the limitations.
2015-07-21
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Blogs
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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