TSQL - Using ALTER TABLE - ALTER COLUMN To Modify Column Type / Set Identity Column
Sep 7, 2007
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;
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Aug 3, 2006
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.
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Aug 12, 2009
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'.
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Nov 20, 2013
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
)
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Aug 31, 2001
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)
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Feb 5, 2003
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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
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May 8, 2008
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
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Feb 27, 2008
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
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Jun 18, 2007
I tried
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they all can not work,
any idea about this? thanks
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my code:
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C:CalJobsSQLCMDSQLScripts>SQLCMD -v subgt=SJI txtFile=LTS_ERROR_10022014.TXT
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