Arthur Fuller explores the value of identity columns and the usefulness of their arbitrary values and discusses ways to use SQL Server 2000’s IDENTITY_INSERT setting. Despite your numerous ...

Sometimes, as when testing a table in a Microsoft SQL Server database, you need to reset an identity column to its initial seed value, typically one. During testing, you populate the table with data, ...

I Have an application that creates some form of log in a SQL table that has an identity column. An auditor checked these logs and found some gaps in the identity column sequence. Now, I know that this ...

Both have identical column structures. What I need to do is run an INSERT against Table1 to insert all the data from that table that meets certain requirements in my WHERE clause into Table2. Basic ...