# T-SQL Tuesday

Published articles for T-SQL Tuesday.

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## Stack Overflow Outages Caused by an Overflowing Identity Column

DevFeed: [Stack Overflow Outages Caused by an Overflowing Identity Column](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/t-sql-tuesday-202-the-outage-s-i-won-t-forget-50499.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://sqlperformance.com/2026/09/sql-performance/t-sql-tuesday-202-memorable-outages>)

Author: Aaron Bertrand

Published: 2026-09-08T09:00:51Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [SQLPerformance.com](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/sqlperformance-com.md>)

Topics: [SQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sql.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [Stack Overflow](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/stackoverflow.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>)

Tags: [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [identity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/identity.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [outage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outage.md>), [reseed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reseed.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>), [sql-performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql-performance.md>), [stack-overflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/stack-overflow.md>), [t-sql-tuesday](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/t-sql-tuesday.md>), [technical-debt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technical-debt.md>)

### AI overview

The article recounts two Stack Overflow outages involving an identity column that reached the upper bound of the int data type. The failure disrupted logged-in activity, generated cascading exceptions and alerts, overwhelmed monitoring and Slack, and affected anonymous users when servers became overloaded.

### Source excerpt

Stack Overflow had two outages involving the same identity column. The first time, we bought ourselves 12 years of runway. The second time, we burned through it in minutes. The post T-SQL Tuesday #202 : The Outage(s) I Won't Forget appeared first on SQLPerformance.com.