<Denis Gobo’s mode on> Suppose you have an empty table:   SELECT COUNT(*) FROM SampleTable --- 0   What would be the result of the following query:   DBCC CHECKIDENT('SampleTable', RESEED, 1) INSERT SampleTable(j) SELECT 1 SELECT SCOPE_IDENTITY()   <Denis Gobo’s mode ...

 When you run NUnit/C# unit tests against your local instance, you are a dbo. As such, you are not getting any errors caused by missing permissions. However, you can impersonate another user, and run your unit tests in the context of that other user. The following test harness demonstrates the ...

Well, I have just finished a series of articles about unit testing on simple-talk.com, and some techniques were not included, just to keep the articles short. Still problems such as reproducing a lock timeout and unit testing the retry after it (lock timeout) are interesting, at least to me, so I am continuing. You will need the ...