trying to change a column that is just a INT NOT NULL column, to have an auto-increment.
Code:
ALTER TABLE [ImpExpTables].[dbo].[ImpExp_eBayLocalNeedsDeleted]
ALTER COLUMN ID int IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL
just gives error at IDENTITY
I have an MS SQL Server table with a Job Number field I need this field to start at a certain number then auto increment from there. Is there a way to do this programatically or within MSDE?
Thanks, Justin.
Hi guys,
If I have a temporary table called #CTE
With the columns
[Account]
[Name]
[RowID Table Level]
[RowID Data Level]
and I need to change the column type for the columns:
[RowID Table Level]
[RowID Data Level]
to integer, and set the column [RowID Table Level] as Identity (index) starting from 1, incrementing 1 each time.
What will be the right syntax using SQL SERVER 2000?
I am trying to solve the question in the link below:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2093921&SiteID=1
Thanks in advance,
Aldo.
I have tried the code below, but getting syntax error...
ALTER TABLE #CTE
ALTER COLUMN
[RowID Table Level] INT IDENTITY(1,1),
[RowID Data Level] INT;
I have also tried:
ALTER TABLE #CTE
MODIFY
[RowID Table Level] INT IDENTITY(1,1),
[RowID Data Level] INT;
How can I put an Auto increment on a non PK field?
for ordering contents items?
I have a column that is not set to auto increment "IDX and Im inserting 800 part numbers but i want the IDX column to start at IDX 400 and increment 1 time per part number that is inserted. how can i accomplished that task.
EXAMPLE:
IDX PART#
400 abcde
401 fghi
402 jklm
etc. and so forth until the last part# will have IDX 1200...
Hi there,
With a Union all Query is there a way to have it also generate
an Auto Increment (number) column that is appended to the Union all results
?
i've posted in the wrong forum, so im posting here
hi, im having problems to import data from my excel to a sql table.
in the excel file i have exact the same fields that i have in the table excepts the primary key which is an auto increment. When i try to import data, an error that i can't insert nulls into my auto increment column.
I put enable identity insert in the edit options, but still doesnt work.
can anyone help?
thanks in advance
I have a column with consist of customer number.e.g.
c001
c002
c003
How do I add the character "c" to the auto-incremental number everything I add?
Hi members,
I am facing a grange error, I hv an asp .net application running with sql server 2000 on a web server.
one table say tblProducts, I have few colums in it with an ID Primery Key field which is auto increment.
I have around 1500 records in it, what i am seeing is that autonumbers are not comming in sequence. it is skiping few numbers after rendom intervals.
like
1
2
3
4
5
7
9
12
13
14
like this there is no error in the code as its only a simple insert query. can anybody tell me what could be the reason.
regards
Aloha
Hello all,I'm using SS2K on W2k.I'v got a table say, humm, "Orders" with two fields in the PK:OrderDate and CustomerID. I would like to add an "ID" column whichwould be auto-increment (and would be the new PK). But, I would reallylike to have orders with the oldest OrderDate having the smallest IDnumber and, for a same OrderDate, I'd to have the smallest CustomerIDfirst. So my question is:How could I add an auto-increment column to a table and make it createits values in a particular order (sort by OrderDate then CustomerIDhere)?In the real situation, the table I want to modify has around 500krecords and the PK has 5 fields and I want to sort on three of them.Thanks for you helpYannick
View 7 Replies View RelatedDue to localization I have the need to make child tables, where there is a composite Primary Key, between the Id column and the LanguageSign column. On the parent table the Id column is Identity column with auto increment.
The problem is that during the select into query to copy columns from parent to child, this auto increment behaviour of the parent-Id is copied to the child-Id. However I do not want that, because the same Id will be used by different LanguageSign entries
Is there a way to use 'select into' without copying the auto increment, or is my only option to make a whole new column without auto increment on the child and copy the records?
btw I have used this statement
SET
IDENTITY_INSERT MyTable
ON , so that inserting into the Id column is possible. I can see however that this does not take away the auto increment...
i would to make a column contains of 3 characters and 6 auto increment numbers (example: "DLL - 123456")
and made it primary key and which data type i should use. i do not know whether i use after insert trigger in two columns one for three characters and another for code which has identity property >>>so please help me
I have created a table that generates a sequential id and a
stored procedure that will return that id. The trouble is
no matter what I set the Seed or Increment values to, the
id will always start with #1 and increment by 1.
My table is BILLING_TIME_ID
Identity field BT_GEN_ID
(SEED 200, INCREMENT 1)
The sp is as follows:
CREATE PROCEDURE BT_NEXT_ID
AS
INSERT dbo.BILLING_TIME_ID DEFAULT VALUES
select count (*) from dbo.BILLING_TIME_ID
GO
I have double checked that Identity_Insert is set to off for
this table. (does this default to off unless it is set to on?) Since
there is only 1 field in the table, I don`t have any indexes set.
Thanks for your help!
Toni
when i alter non identity column to identity column using this Query alter table testid alter column test int identity(1,1) then i got this error message Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 3 Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'identity'.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHi,
How to Change Increment Value for existing Identity Column (MS SQL2000) ?
I know how to change the seed :
DBCC CHECKIDENT (activity, RESEED,4233596)
but I need the future id generated with step 2
4233596
4233598
4233600
I would like to do it using T-sql because I will need to do it every day after syncronising with another SQL server .
Thanks,
Natalia
Dear Sir,
the following code is copied from the SQL Server Help Example.
CREATE TABLE MyCustomers2 (CustID INTEGER IDENTITY (100,1) PRIMARY KEY, CompanyName NvarChar (50))
INSERT INTO MyCustomers2 (CompanyName) VALUES ('A. Datum Corporation')
ALTER TABLE MyCustomers2 ALTER COLUMN CustId IDENTITY (200, 2)
It gives the following error.
Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 3
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'IDENTITY'
Can U please guide me abt the error.
with regards,
wilfi
Hi
I am trying to use the identity data type ( column)
I am using examples from the book and management studio in sql server 2005.
I am using the identity property for the customer Id in customers table.I accidentatly executed the querry twice and I had two same record with different customer id numbers of 1 and 2 . I realised the problem and I had to delete the second record.
The problem is now even if I have deteted the 2nd record with customer id 2 , when I insert a new record the identity value ( customer Id) increments with a number after the value I deleted. i.e if I deleted a second row with customer id 2 ( identity 2) when I enter a new record it enters with a customer id of 3 and whenever i add a new record it increments from there.
So instead of first record have cust id 1 and second record customer id 2 etc , I get first record with cust id 1 , second record with cust id 3 , third record cust id 4 etc.
How can I get rid of this wrong values of identity values whenever I delete a record and try to add a new record?
Thanks
i am altering an int column to identity:
where is something wrong here?
error:
Server: Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'IDENTITY'.
statement:
ALTER TABLE Navigation Alter column [Navigation_ID] int IDENTITY(1,1)
I'm attempting to remove the IDENTITY property from a column using the ALTER command but can't seem to find the right syntax. I've tried every conceivable combination I can think of. I can add the property to a column that doesn't have it.
It's easy to do in Enterprise Mgr., but I want to script the change.
I really don't want to drop the table and rebuild if I don't have to.
Sidney Ives
Hello All,
There is a table A in SQL. One of the column of A was IDENTITY before and was getting referenced in other table B.
During migration to SQL 2005, I removed the IDENTITY constraint and imported all the data from 2000 to 2005. Now I have to deploy the IDENTITY back to the column. I am getting an error while executing the code:
ALTER TABLE TableA
ALTER COLUMN ColumnA
ADD CONSTRAINT IDENTITY(445,1)
Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong? Or if there is any other way to do it. There are 50+ tables I need to do the same.
Thanks,
-S
hello experts,
Any body know what is the query for modifying the identity column in a table? i mean modifying from IDENTITY column to int colum or VICE-VERSA
Thanks
Muthu
I tried
Alter table table1 alter column column1 Identity(1,1);
Alter table table1 ADD CONSTRAINT column1_def Identity(1,1) FOR column1
they all can not work,
any idea about this? thanks
Is there any way to remove the IDENTITY property of a column? I originally used it, but it caused so many headaches with ADO.NET that I've decided to just increment the darn things manually. So I want to turn it into just a normal integer column.
If there's no direct way, can someone suggest a quick way to create a new column, copy all the old values into the new column, change the primary key to the new column, and drop the old column?
Thanks.
Hello,
I Have a table that needs to have 2 unique number.
detail_id and detail_print_id.
detail_id is already an IDENTITY.
both fields need to be different, because when importing, it imports the same data into a table twice, with only a slight data change (and id is not one of the changes).
So I thought i could do the following:
detail_id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,2),
detail_print_id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(2,2),
--blah blah
that way, the detail_id will always be odd, and the detail_print_id will always be even. however SQL Server 2005 only allows 1 identity per table, and both these fields need to be auto generated when the field is inserted, so as to prevent double data.
is there anyway I can create a int column to auto increment, without the column being an IDENTITY??
also, I would prefer to not have to create a second table with a single column just for this work.
Thanks,
Justin
i have a table
table1
column1 int not null
column2 char not nul
column3 char
i want to script a change for table1 to alter column1 to be the table identity column. not primary.
Hi,
I have an auto incrementing int column setup which serves as my unique primary key. Just wondering what happens when the auto increment reaches the limit? Will it recycle numbers from the begining (who's rows have obviously been deleted by this stage)?
Hi,
I have the following two tables:
Code:
create table RECORD
(
ID int not null,
Issue_descr varchar(256) not null,
Priority varchar(5) not null,
Status varchar(12) not null,
Date_add varchar(10) not null,
Date_due varchar(10) not null,
Date_complete varchar(10),
PName varchar(32),
primary key(ID),
foreign key(PName) references PROJECT(PName)
);
and
Code:
create table STEPS
(
ID int not null,
Num int not null,
Descr varchar(256),
Date_due varchar(10) not null,
Date_complete varchar(10),
Status varchar(12),
primary key(ID, Num),
foreign key(ID) references RECORD(ID)
);
I have set PK "ID" in table RECORD to auto identity(1,1). I have done the same for PK "num" in table STEPS.
However I am seeking this behavior in STEPS:
ID num
-- ----
19 1
19 2
19 3
20 1
20 2
21 1
but what I'm getting is PK num doesn't "reseed" or reset to 1 as "ID" changes. PK num just auto-increments regardless of ID. Is there a workaround?
Thanks.
I'm a bit new to SQL Server, but here is the problem I am trying to getaround:1. I have lets say an Employee table where the emp_id is an identitycolumn that is auto assigned by the db.2. I wish to insert values into the tables, but sometimes I may wish touse the value of the emp_id that i supply while inserting (andsometimes not).Is there any way in MS SQL to do this? For e.g. is it setup like aconstraint that I can temporarily drop. I do not want to alter thetable, so that option is ruled out.Any other ways to do this (I know bcp is one of them that allows me todo this, but looking for ways in the db itself using SQL if possible)Thanks,Bharat
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am migrating a web application I wrote from ASP to ASP.Net, and fromAccess to MS SQL server.In the Access version, I did not use the auto number for creatinginvoices and other documents, because I heard somewhere (perhapsincorrectly) that if the db was ever compacted or otherwise changed,it could change the values of the auto-numbers. Not a good thing.So I wrote a routine that, just before creating a new record, wouldlook for the highest value in the table and create the new record withthe next number.So my question is, am I safe in assuming that in MS SQL that I can seta starting number for the next, let's say, invoice and that newnumbers will be issued in sequence, and that these numbers will neverchange? What happens if an invoice is deleted? is the number goneforever? Just wondering how others deal with these issues...thanks.Larry- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."
View 2 Replies View Relatedi need to alter all foreign keys in my database and uncheck the"Enforce relationship for replication" check box. Using the EM, Iextracted the code snippet below. unfortunately, when i run this testfrom query analyzer, then go back into the EM, the box is stillchecked.can anyone tell me what i am missing? any advice on unsetting thisattribute globally would be appreciated!BEGIN TRANSACTIONSET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ONSET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLESET ARITHABORT ONSET NUMERIC_ROUNDABORT OFFSET CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL ONSET ANSI_NULLS ONSET ANSI_PADDING ONSET ANSI_WARNINGS ONCOMMITBEGIN TRANSACTIONALTER TABLE dbo.CustomerCustomerDemoDROP CONSTRAINT FK_CustomerCustomerDemo_CustomersGOCOMMITBEGIN TRANSACTIONALTER TABLE dbo.CustomerCustomerDemo WITH NOCHECK ADD CONSTRAINTFK_CustomerCustomerDemo_Customers FOREIGN KEY(CustomerID) REFERENCES dbo.Customers(CustomerID) NOT FOR REPLICATIONGOCOMMITthanks!!
View 4 Replies View RelatedHi ,,
How to write the Sql Query to return the next generated Identity from the Sql server database.
I have created a table as below mentioned. Then I want to alter the ID column as identity(1,1) without dropping the table as well as losing the data.
create table dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int not null,
descript varchar(255) null,
T_date datetime not null
)
DIAGID is the
field in database which is integer. i want to increment this when page is
loaded.but it is not working..
plz
find mistake ... thanks in advance
SqlCommand sqlCmd = new SqlCommand("Select max(DIAGID) from tblDxactual",
sqlCon);
SqlDataReader sqlDr;
sqlCon.Open();
sqlDr = sqlCmd.ExecuteReader();
if (sqlDr.Read())
{
txtbxDiagID.Text = sqlDr[0].ToString()+ "1"
;
}
else
txtbxDiagID.Text="1";
sqlCon.Close();