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Tracking Identity Column Saturation in SQL Server with Datadog

Int32 ought to be enough for any table's identity column -- Most developers at some point We've all done it, creating a new table in SQL Server and giving it a nice auto-incrementing integer as the primary key. There's no way that table will ever reach 2,147,483,647 rows, right? Now, for most tables that's likely true, but the last thing you want is to be surprised when suddenly you can no longer insert…