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Identity column resetting

Rahuul

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June 4, 2003 at 5:56 am

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Hi All,
I imported some rows from some other table by giving set Identity_insert on command, and droping my Primary Key, but after that i couldnot set my primary key as it's now containing duplicates.
Is there any way by which these duplicated identity rows can be reseeded, so that I can create the primary key again with Identity.
Thanks in advance

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Frank Kalis SSC Guru Points: 111183 More actions · Answer 1

Hi Rahuul,

what about dropping the field, save, create a new int field and make it primarykey and identity and save again?

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736212 More actions · Answer 2

don't remove the pk. delete the rows and reimport them without set identity_insert to give them new values.

if that's not possible, you can remove the identity (Requires a table rebuild) and then "fix" the data. Once that is done, you could rebuild the table with a new seed value that doesn't create duplicates.

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