Find All Columns That Have Identity Property

Mar 19, 2008



How do i Find all Columns that have Identity Property in a database. That is i will like to know all columns in a database that are identity columns.

I am using SQL Server 2005. Thanks

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ID Name SecLevDG Flags ----------- ----------------- ----------- ----------- 1029528 xxx 0 01029529 xxx 0 01049676 xxx 0 0
While upgrading this database to a later version of our product, some schema changes are necessary. For this particular table, the changes are

alter table Authority drop constraint apkAuthorityId
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This code has worked perfectly for years, and even in this particular database, there are no error messages. However, the result isn't quite the expected:

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DBCC CHECKDB returns no errors before running the above statement. Afterwards it returns this (only relevant messages included):
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Row error: Object ID 293576084, index ID 0, page ID (1:277), row ID 0. Column 'new_id' was created NOT NULL, but is NULL in the row.
Server: Msg 8970, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Row error: Object ID 293576084, index ID 0, page ID (1:277), row ID 1. Column 'new_id' was created NOT NULL, but is NULL in the row.
Server: Msg 8970, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Row error: Object ID 293576084, index ID 0, page ID (1:1145), row ID 0. Column 'new_id' was created NOT NULL, but is NULL in the row.
[...]
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(Long post)

I have a production database with about half the tables using
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without updates. The SQL Server Agent runs every hour to pick up any
changes and replicate them to the Subscriber (another SQL Server
machine configured as our failover server).

Both servers are running SQL Server 7.0 (original, no service packs)
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The failover server (the replication Subscriber) will only be used if
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before the primary server comes back online. During the time that the
failover is actually being used, the application will not make any
changes to the database.

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NOTE: Upgrading to SQL Server 2000 is NOT an option right now.
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