How to switch ID number to new values (but maintaining duplicates)

• lda17_04

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  April 4, 2013 at 12:06 pm

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  Hello!!!

  I need a database from an Insurance company, but they don't want to give it because it has a column with the ID number of each patient and their medical history.

  They will give it to me only if I can find a 'script' that allows them to switch that ID number, but I need to 'remember' same ID across all the dase...

  For example,

  If I have (in a column) the ID 12345 and you 54321, y must generate a new number for each one. It can be 1 for me and 2 for you; but each time it reads 12345 it has to change to 1 exclusively.

  In conclution, it has to identify each person with a new ID number.

  Thanks !!!

• Sean Lange

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  April 4, 2013 at 12:38 pm

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  Duplicate post. Direct replies here. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1438955-1292-1.aspx

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