Multiple Display Productivity
How many monitors do you need? Steve notes that having multiple ones seems to be a standard these days for tech workers. Do more make you more productive? Answer the poll today.
2024-05-10
182 reads
Work environment
The On-Call Load
Today Steve asks about on-call responsibility for you and how you view this as part of your job, or in your job search.
2024-05-03
143 reads
Missing the Office
Steve talks about being back in an office today, at a customer where everyone comes in every day.
2024-04-17
159 reads
Protecting Off Hours
There is new legislation in Australia that is supposed to allow employees to ignore messages outside of working hours. Steve has a few thoughts on how he balances his workload.
2024-03-18
190 reads
Un-Stable Teams
At Redgate, the teams change every year and Steve has a few reasons why this is good.
2024-02-12
181 reads
A Great Place to Work
Do you enjoy your workplace or employer? Steve does and has a few thoughts on what that is like for him.
2024-01-26
162 reads
Declining Work for Mental Health
A busy year got a little too busy for Steve and he is taking steps to improve his work life balance.
2023-10-20
151 reads
Flexible Work Policies are Preferred
New research says that companies with flexible work policies, hybrid or remote, find they are able to hire staff more quickly.
2023-08-04
92 reads
The Survivors
There have been a lot of layoffs in the last year. Steve has some empathy for both those let go and those that remain. He also reminds us to manage our own careers.
2023-04-28
156 reads
The Cost of Employee Turnover
Culture is important retaining employers. Companies are finding this more valuable every day.
2023-01-20 (first published: 2023-01-07)
217 reads
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