Scripts

Technical Article

Formatting Dates

There are many ways to format dates, and rather that reinvent the wheel each time I've found it helpful to have a user defined function always available. As a function it of courses processes on each row, and to enable the most flexibility the formatting style is passed simply as a parameter. Year month and […]

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2005-08-31 (first published: )

469 reads

Technical Article

Drop all Databases (+the option to exclude one)

I made this Query because we fix databases localy on a workstation (we have no sql server) but when backup up the server they need to be deleted localy that could sometimes take a while.U can run this Query from the QA or ad it as a Job it's possible to run it from an […]

4.5 (2)

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2005-08-26 (first published: )

513 reads

Technical Article

Enterprise Manager Single Diagram Copy Script

This procedure will COPY an Enterprise Manager SINGLE DIAGRAM object between databases on a given SQL Server.This procedure takes in a source DB name, a Dest DB name, and the Diagram name.(Exec diagram_copy 'SOURCE_DB', 'DEST_DB', 'DIAGRAM NAME')This procedure DOES NOT have to be placed in either of the databases, you may run it from a […]

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2005-08-25 (first published: )

190 reads

Technical Article

Pad String

Pads a string on either with either leading or trailing characters. You specify the direction, the tolal string length and the character to pad with.Error conditions return null

5 (2)

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2005-08-19 (first published: )

2,051 reads

Blogs

Advice I Like: Fear and Imagination

By

Fear is fueled by a lack of imagination. The antidote to fear is not...

Cloud Data Driven User Group 2025 – Slides & Scripts

By

The slidedeck and the SQL scripts for the session Indexing for Dummies can be...

Leading Through Change: Guiding Teams in Times of Uncertainty

By

Change is not a disruption in technology; it is the rhythm. New frameworks appear,...

Read the latest Blogs

Forums

Building AI Governance and Policies- First Steps

By dbakevlar

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

By askcoffman

Why is sql doing a full scan VS seeking on the index? I've included...

Show/Hide number of rows in table

By marty.seed

We have a report that has multiple tables that list the top 15 performers...

Visit the forum

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  2025-01-16
The 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