Can IDENTITY Colum Be ALTERED?
Jun 7, 2001
Hi All,
Just want to know if a column with IDENTITY can be altered. If yes, how?
I have a table with colum defined like this:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Test] (
[TestID] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL ,
.......
Through ALTER TABLE script (I don't want to do it through Enterprise Manager) I want it to be like this:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Test] (
[TestID] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT FOR REPLICATION NOT NULL ,
.......
I want the constrain "NOT FOR REPLICATION" done through ALTER TABLE script. Is that possible?
Please let me know with the syntax.
Thanks
Sri
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Jun 7, 2001
Hi All,
Just want to know if a column with IDENTITY can be altered. If yes, how?
I have a table with colum defined like this:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Test] (
[TestID] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL ,
.......
Through ALTER TABLE script (I don't want to do it through Enterprise Manager) I want it to be like this:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Test] (
[TestID] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT FOR REPLICATION NOT NULL ,
.......
I want the constrain "NOT FOR REPLICATION" done through ALTER TABLE script. Is that possible?
Please let me know with the syntax.
Thanks
Sri
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Feb 14, 2001
HI,
how can i drop the identity on a column from the table.
I have no access to the sql enterprise manager, i have to do it thru query analyser only.
regards,
varadish
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Feb 6, 2008
hi everyone...
how could i execute this query if the hrsrate is not yet altered to money. The original datatype is numeric(9,2)
Alter table hrEmpLeaveMonetize alter column hrsrate money
thanks
RON
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"I won't last a day without SQL"
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Feb 14, 2008
Working on partitioning a few large tables. One of the tables included a text column and the €śTEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY]€? clause which would prevent the partitioning of this table. After some research we found that the data was legacy and no longer used. We updated the column on the affected rows to NULLS and altered the column to a VARCHAR(20)
When I attempted to run the ALTER TABLE SWITCH I encountered the error
Msg 4947, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
ALTER TABLE SWITCH statement failed. There is no identical index in source table 'LocalDeltanet.dbo.testresultsjoe' for the index 'PKIDX_testSummary' in target table 'LocalDeltanet.dbo.testresults_part'.
After a lot of grief and testing I determined that the message was bogus and the real issue is that the 'sys.tables' still has €ślob_data_space_id€? with a value of 1 for this table.
I created a copy of the table with the text column altered to varchar and one with just the varchar to begin with. After copying data from the original table, I tried to run the alter switch. It failed once again for the text column altered to varchar table, but it worked for the varchar from the start.
Since it appears that this value is causing my issues, is there anyway to update the table in place. I know I can BCP the data out, but that would take too long and would defeat the advantage of using the alter switch method.
BOL States:
The allow updates option is still present in the sp_configure stored procedure, although its functionality is unavailable in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (the setting has no effect). In SQL Server 2005, direct updates to the system tables are not supported. This means we cannot update the table manually.
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Dec 9, 2005
Hi
I wonder if its possible to return a value at same row from another colum if col1 contains NULL (or other criteria)
ex:
the output is:
col1,col2,col3
text1,text10,text100
text2,text20,text200
text3,NULL,text300
Can i take a value from col3 and return it to col2 in the output if a criteria is meet (like NULL)
the DDL is nvarchar254 at thoose colums.
thx in advance //Mr
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Jan 21, 2008
i am running this script
SELECT dbo.SHOVEL_A.HOLEID, dbo.Shovel_Hole.HOLEID AS shovel_id, dbo.SHOVEL_A.PROJECTCODE, dbo.Shovel_Hole.Shotname,
dbo.Shovel_Hole.B_FEET, dbo.Shovel_Hole.S_FEET, SQRT(square(dbo.SHOVEL_A.EAST - dbo.Shovel_Hole.EAST)
+ square(dbo.SHOVEL_A.NORTH - dbo.Shovel_Hole.NORTH)) AS distance_total
FROM dbo.SHOVEL_A FULL OUTER JOIN
dbo.Shovel_Hole ON dbo.SHOVEL_A.POLYGONO = dbo.Shovel_Hole.Shotname AND distance_total <= dbo.Shovel_Hole.B_FEET
GROUP BY dbo.SHOVEL_A.HOLEID, dbo.Shovel_Hole.HOLEID, dbo.Shovel_Hole.Shotname, dbo.Shovel_Hole.B_FEET, dbo.Shovel_Hole.S_FEET,
dbo.SHOVEL_A.PROJECTCODE, SQRT(square(dbo.SHOVEL_A.EAST - dbo.Shovel_Hole.EAST)
+ square(dbo.SHOVEL_A.NORTH - dbo.Shovel_Hole.NORTH))
HAVING (dbo.SHOVEL_A.PROJECTCODE = 'PRODL') AND (dbo.Shovel_Hole.Shotname = '20040524029')
but i have a result with the message that my colum name distance_total is wrong, so how can i fix that?
cheers
edwin
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Jan 21, 2008
i am running this script , but i have this result even though my script is ok, so i do not what is the problem.
SELECT dbo.SHOVEL_A.HOLEID, dbo.Shovel_Hole.HOLEID AS shovel_id, dbo.SHOVEL_A.PROJECTCODE, dbo.Shovel_Hole.Shotname,
dbo.Shovel_Hole.B_FEET, dbo.Shovel_Hole.S_FEET, SQRT(square(dbo.SHOVEL_A.EAST - dbo.Shovel_Hole.EAST)
+ square(dbo.SHOVEL_A.NORTH - dbo.Shovel_Hole.NORTH)) AS distance_total
FROM dbo.SHOVEL_A FULL OUTER JOIN
dbo.Shovel_Hole ON dbo.SHOVEL_A.POLYGONO = dbo.Shovel_Hole.Shotname AND distance_total <= dbo.Shovel_Hole.B_FEET
GROUP BY dbo.SHOVEL_A.HOLEID, dbo.Shovel_Hole.HOLEID, dbo.Shovel_Hole.Shotname, dbo.Shovel_Hole.B_FEET, dbo.Shovel_Hole.S_FEET,
dbo.SHOVEL_A.PROJECTCODE, SQRT(square(dbo.SHOVEL_A.EAST - dbo.Shovel_Hole.EAST)
+ square(dbo.SHOVEL_A.NORTH - dbo.Shovel_Hole.NORTH))
HAVING (dbo.SHOVEL_A.PROJECTCODE = 'PRODL') AND (dbo.Shovel_Hole.Shotname = '20040524029')
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Hi All,
I have a column called TIER in my database which is a long string. There are piece of these strings that are separated by spaces like this:
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How do I select the last 2 characters of the piece of string when the first 2 chacters are M2?
I have the following:
This is retruning me all the rows that have 'M2'.
declare @code varchar (2)set @code = 'M2'select tier from companywhere tier like '%'+@code+'___ %'
Any help is appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
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so that the most relevnat results are displayed at the top.
how do i achieve this - im a bit confused about this.
appreciate any and all help guys
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Aug 28, 2007
Hi All,
I'm having this many rows(around 25 columns am only showing some 3),
but in the output i want only 2 rows, how can i do that.
16_00SB3215-02
16_0100301A39A041
16_02Successful
16_03Successful
16_04Successful
16_0500301A39A042
18_00Pass
18_0200301A39A041
18_0300904BC1A1D6
18_325.18
18_335.19
18_345.24
18_365.40
18_375.39
18_385.32
18_40-49
18_41-56
18_42-53
18_44-62
18_45-63
18_46-60
26_00SB3216-02
26_0100301A39A041
26_02Successful
26_03Successful
26_04Successful
26_0500301A39A042
28_00Pass
28_0200301A39A041
28_0300904BC1A1D6
28_325.68
28_336.19
28_349.24
28_365.40
28_375.89
28_385.32
28_40-49
28_41-56
28_42-53
28_44-82
28_45-63
28_46-69
Output like this
----------------
16_00SB3215-02 6_0100301A39A0416_02Successful6_03Successful6_04Successful6_0500301A39A0428_00Pass8_0200301A39A0418_0300904BC1A1D68_325.18 8_335.19 8_345.24 ....................
like this
please help me, how can i do this
with Regards
Amjath
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If when then isnt possible, any other suggestions are welcomed. Thanks
UPDATE #Sec
SET C2005 = Pos.USD / 1000
FROM #Sec INNER JOIN
Pos ON #Sec.ID = Pos.ID
WHERE (Pos.PID = 'B')
UPDATE #Sec
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FROM #Sec INNER JOIN
Pos ON #Sec.ID = Pos.ID
WHERE (Pos.PID = 'G')
UPDATE #Sec
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WHEN (Pos.PID = 'G') THEN SET G2005 = Pos.USD / 1000 end
WHEN (Pos.PID = 'E') THEN SET E2005 = Pos.USD / 1000 end
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2. Suppose I actually had two processes updating these tables, running at the same time. Then it seems the "variable" method will also have its problems. Is there a final solution other than locking the tables involved prior to updating them or doing something crazy like using a GUID for the primary key!
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