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• ramyours2003

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  September 23, 2013 at 8:23 am

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  I want to change the identity of the column to false when the column is primary key , how to change the identity property is to be False in one of the table to update a record ?

• Sean Lange

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  September 23, 2013 at 8:46 am

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  ramyours2003 (9/23/2013)

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  I want to change the identity of the column to false when the column is primary key , how to change the identity property is to be False in one of the table to update a record ?

  Are you wanting to update the identity column? You can do that by setting IDENTITY_INSERT for the table. Be careful though, if you have foreign keys to this column your update still may not work.

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