Reset Increment Seed
Sep 10, 2007
I'm still in the development stage and am frequently deleting all data from all tables and then filling those tables anew. However, the increment seed for identifying fields doesn't reset to 1 (or 0--not sure which). While not important for operation of the database, I would prefer that the field identifiers start with 1 when I am ready to release the database for operation. Is there a way to do this?
I can generate scripts to rebuild the database structure to do this, but scripts aren't generated for database diagrams and the graphical representation of the table structure is very useful.
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Dec 11, 2007
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
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Aug 26, 2005
Hello,
Can I reset the IDENTITY seed of a Table column without delete/drop the table?
I want to delete all the table rows, restore de seed, and restore a
backup made on a XML (using SET IDENTITY_INSERT Table ON)
I cant drop the table due to acount restricctions.
regards,
Edu
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Jun 1, 1999
I would like to set the identity seed to a different value. How do I do that? Please help!
Sam
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Feb 16, 2004
I have a test database that is being moved to the production server. Currently in one of the tables I have an identity seed for each record. Is there a way to reset it back to zero. I have deleted all my records but it still doesnt work, and I dont want to create a new table.
Thanks
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Aug 25, 2005
Iam trying to add a column to an existing table that would be an "identifier". I called it "ReadingNumber" and selected Identity "Yes" and "Identity increment" as 1.
When I add it, it just gives the rows random numbers instead of by the order they were inserted into the database by.....is there a way to autonumber the columns correctly? I have a COLUMN called Date and also one called Time that have the date and Time, but the format is char.
Would I have to convert the date time columns into something SQL understands, sort them ASC or DESC and then do the Identity column add?
Thanks for any help
Edited
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Oct 1, 1998
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
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Mar 16, 2004
Hi all,
I've been thrown a curve ball late in the game on an application I'm developing. Without getting into the specifics of the application I store a unique employee ID number for all person records in it. This ID is provided to us by the companies we're servicing. Up until this point in time we didn't have need of an externally visable ID other than the one provided to us. Now, a need for an internally generated (by our application) unique ID has been discovered. This number needs to be a minimum 5 digits (e.x. 10001, 10002, ....). I could achieve this nicely by seeding an identity column at 10000 with an increment of 1. However, I've alredy made different settings for this and there are records in the db with the old ones.
My question is: If I initially set the seed / increment at 1/1 can I change this after the fact without causing data integrity problems. Will all subsequent insertions into this table just start at the new values?
Or, ideally I'd like to create a new column seperate from the PK Identity column already in place that serves the same function, incrementing a 5 digit number by 1 for each new record. Seems that you're only allowed one identity column per table though. Is there another way to achieve get the same result as identity?
Thanks!
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Sep 5, 2007
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
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Jul 20, 2005
Reset the Identity IncrementHello:I have a table with a bigint type column (field) that has an identity seedof 1 and an identity increment of 1. The column is the primary key for thetable.After I backup and clean out the database (delete all of the data in the DB)I need to have the column with the identiy seed/increment value reset to 1automatically. (start counting at 1 again). How does one do that, becauseas it is now, the DB keeps increasing the value of the column from where itleft off, regardless of the fact that I deleted all of the data in thetable.The DB is MS SQL Server 2000.Thanks and appreciate any help.Ryan Kennedy
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Apr 26, 2007
Ok - I have two tables that are relational. I have been inserted data into the tables because of testing. I also have been deleting data. My question is how do I reset the auto-incremented Primary key values.
For example:
Primary key of table one is bizID. Well there are only 3 record currently in the table. The bizIDs are 1-3. If I insert another record the bizID will be 88 because that was the next auto-incremented number. I obviously deleted the other records. I want to start the primary key value over from zero. How do I accomplish this? thnks
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Sep 4, 2006
I can't seem to find a way to reset the auto increment fields in my SQL Server Mobile database table.
Are there any SQL statements I can call in order to do this?
I'd rather not have to drop and then re-create the database.
Any help much appreciated
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Dec 14, 2007
I'm still looking for a solution on msdn, but i've decided also to post my question here.
How can i reset my primary key field auto-increment back to 0 in runtime (or in designtime)?
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Oct 24, 2001
Can Ne1 tell me how to reset the auto increment colum of a table in the Microsoft Data Engine??, Does ne1 know where to find a free MSDE administration utility.
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Dec 11, 2007
Hi guys,Please is it possible in SQL SERVER any version (Prefferably 2005) to set my Identity seed to the current year so that when we are in 2008 it continues from 2008 ?
Best Regards
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Nov 5, 2003
Hello-
I am auto generating an id when a record is input into my database.
I know how to set the id field to create an identity seed for each new entry with an increment of 1.
Is there anyway to add characters to begining of this identity seed. Can it only be an integer.
For example I would like my id field to be in the following format:
NCID - 1
NCID - 2
.
.
.
.
Can anyone show me how to do this if possible?
Thanks
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Nov 9, 2000
I have a table with an identity seed in it. I need to go back and get some history that wasn't loaded into it. I would then like to resequence the identity column. Is this possible? Can I use the dbcc checkident? or will this just start any future inserts with the number I specify. I would like to reseed the whole file when I'm done starting with 1 and going forward is this possible with this command.
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Oct 12, 2000
Is there a way to drop the seed or sequence and recreate it? Thank you very much.
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Sep 17, 1999
How can i reset the identity seed of a counter field to 1 after deleting
records from a table. Even though the identity seed displays 1 in the design
mode, when i add another record the counter field is incremented to the next
number from the last deleted record.
thanks
Todd Minifie
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Sep 15, 2006
hello there
Just a quick question. (sql 2000)
Can you have and auto increment identity seed for a table that always ends with say a predefined Letter?
i.e.
1a , 2a, 3a, 4a, 5a, etc...
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Jul 20, 2005
Can I change the value of a column's identity seed programmatically? Ifso, how?Thanks in advance.
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Jan 9, 2004
Because of testing and deletion, my table of user groups starts at 15 or so. Now I want to insert a group for administrators but I would like to have the groupID be 1. I tried to turn off the identity seed property and insert it manually but that didn't work.
Is there any way to do this?
Thanks, Dave
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Jan 27, 2003
Hi,
I have a table which has a field called x which is set to identity with seed 1 and incerement 1.
Currently the table has 100 records so the last value of x is 100.
I would like to adavnce the seed number to be 1000, so that the next insert into the table will be 1001...
This is possible to do through the Enterprise manager, but I would like a script to do it.
Does anyone know where such a script exists?
What I actually need is a script that creates a CREATE TABLE Statement for the table (including all info - columns,indexes etc...).
thanks
Moshe
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Dec 17, 2004
Hello, everyone:
I got a new database from client. How to check which tables are seed table and truncatable? Thanks
ZYT
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Apr 4, 2008
Hi ..
I have an issue here. I create a DB and some tables through a script in SQL Server. I have lot of tables in DB and quite a lot have identity columns with seed set to 1 and increment set to 1. The scripts executed fine and all the tables created. Now when I do the first insert records into the tables the identity column associated starts with 0 even though the seed is set at 1. Its the case with all the tables where the identity column are set. The first records into all these tables starts with 0 for all the identity columns.
I could'nt figure out what is causing this issue ..
Any fix for the issue ..
thanx in advance
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Apr 4, 2008
Hi ..
I have an issue here. I create a DB and some tables through a script in SQL Server. I have lot of tables in DB and quite a lot have identity columns with seed set to 1 and increment set to 1. The scripts executed fine and all the tables created. Now when I do the first insert records into the tables the identity column associated starts with 0 even though the seed is set at 1. Its the case with all the tables where the identity column are set. The first records into all these tables starts with 0 for all the identity columns.
I could'nt figure out what is causing this issue ..
Any fix for the issue ..
thanx
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May 15, 2006
My client has a need for the auto identity field to be 6 digits in length starting with the number 001000. They want the leading 0's preserved since this will be a casenumber. Even if I set the identity seed to 001000 it gets rid of the leading 0's. How can I get it to keep those?
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Mar 22, 1999
I'm trying to have an identity column seed value specified with a local variable value as follows, however it
doesn't allow me to do it (Says cannot use a variable name for a seed value).
Any ideas or suggestions?
DECLARE @idvalue int
SELECT @idvalue = max(accountid) + 1
FROM account
CREATE TABLE accounttemp
(Accountid int IDENTITY(@idvalue,1),
name char(10),
address char(10))
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Aug 8, 2007
Sever: sql 2000
Replication: Merge
Issue:
I am having an issue with my audit table, This table is filled by Triggers on various tables through the database. All triggers are defied with "not for replication"
I have allocated 500k ranges, with 80% threshold to the publisher and subscriber databases for this table. The table only holds 225,000 records.
From time to time I get the following error "The identity range managed by replication is full and must be updated by a replication agent. The INSERT conflict occurred in database 'PublicationName', table 'AuditHistory', column 'AuditID'. Sp_adjustpublisheridentityrange can be called to get a new identity range."
When I looked into the issue yesterday I noticed that the identity range being used by replication was 334300001 -> 334799999, however the maximum value in the table was 334300096, meaning that only 95 records were inserted, which means it is no where near the 80% threshold.
Somehow the identity seed on the AuditHistory table had been changed to 334800104, which is outside the allowable range.
My question is what could cause the identity seed to get set to such a high number??
any thoughts would be great!
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Feb 16, 2004
I'm using a stored procedure to create a table in sql 2000. One of the columns is an identity column. I need to set the seed to a max(number) from a column in another table, this column is not an identity column and can't be changed into one. I've been trying to set the seed by passing a variable. I continue to get errors so either I've got the syntax wrong or it's not possible to set the seed via a variable. Any words of wisdom would be appreciated.
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May 9, 2008
Hi,
I've just recently learned that being an identity seed-column doesn't guarantee that you will always get unique values. It can double up and cause a violation of PK. If so, is there a work around this that doesn't involve a REINDEX? Cause if im home and my client suddenly experiences this in the middle of a busy day, that would be a total disaster. Any ideas on how i can avoid this or a workaround maybe? Thanks!
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Aug 10, 2001
I am attempting to import data from a Lotus Notes database using DTS. The SQL table I am importing to has an identifying auto-number. I can't insert directly into it because the SQL server should, however I get an error if I ignore it in the DTS package. Is there any way to get around this?
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Mar 30, 2000
I am working with Microsoft Search on SQL 7.0 and the catalog will not populate properly. The NT event log says "Unable to access crawl seed. The operation timed out." Has anyone run into this before? I have been able to duplicate this problem on two boxes. Question 2: Is Microsoft Search stable at all?
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