Change Identity Property in T-SQL
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How do you change the Identity Property in T-SQL?
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You can use ALTER TABLE command.
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Sean Pearce (5/20/2014)
What do you mean?Change the column that is an IDENTITY?
Add or remove an IDENTITY column?
Change the seed?
There is an Identity Property for a column it is set to True or False.
You can't change it from falsetto true.
You can change it in design mode from True to false but how do you do this in T-SQL Code.
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You can't turn an existing IDENTITY off and you can't make an existing column IDENTITY. However you can add an IDENTITY column to an existing table.
Any indexes should be scripted, dropped and recreated after the change.
-- Setup test tableCREATE TABLE TestIdentity
(ID INT IDENTITY(1, 1),
Value INT);
GO
-- Setup test data
INSERT INTO TestIdentity (Value)
VALUES (1),(2),(3),(4),(5);
GO
-- Add new column
ALTER TABLE TestIdentity
ADD ID2 INT NULL;
GO
-- Copy data
UPDATE TestIdentity
SET ID2 = ID;
GO
-- Remove IDENTITY
ALTER TABLE TestIdentity
DROP COLUMN ID;
GO
-- Rename new column
EXEC sp_rename 'TestIdentity.ID2', 'ID', 'COLUMN';
GO
INSERT INTO TestIdentity (Value)
VALUES (11),(12),(13),(14),(15);
GO
SELECT * FROM TestIdentity;
GO
DROP TABLE TestIdentity;
GO
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You are right you can't set the Identity Property to true.
You can set the identity property to false by simply going into design mode and set the property to false.
I just wanted to know how to do it in T-SQL.
I guess I could find out how to do so by setting up a trace.
Thank you.
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Welsh Corgi (5/20/2014)
You are right you can't set the Identity Property to true.You can set the identity property to false by simply going into design mode and set the property to false.
I just wanted to know how to do it in T-SQL.
I guess I could find out how to do so by setting up a trace.
Thank you.
SSMS will create a new table, copy the data across, delete your original table and rename the new one.
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Where do you see the identity property for a column? I did not see it under sp_columns.
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Sean Pearce (5/21/2014)
Welsh Corgi (5/20/2014)
You are right you can't set the Identity Property to true.You can set the identity property to false by simply going into design mode and set the property to false.
I just wanted to know how to do it in T-SQL.
I guess I could find out how to do so by setting up a trace.
Thank you.
SSMS will create a new table, copy the data across, delete your original table and rename the new one.
I did not see the command to change the column to an identity in you example?
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Welsh Corgi (6/28/2014)
Sean Pearce (5/21/2014)
Welsh Corgi (5/20/2014)
You are right you can't set the Identity Property to true.You can set the identity property to false by simply going into design mode and set the property to false.
I just wanted to know how to do it in T-SQL.
I guess I could find out how to do so by setting up a trace.
Thank you.
SSMS will create a new table, copy the data across, delete your original table and rename the new one.
I did not see the command to change the column to an identity in you example?
There isn't one.
CREATE TABLE NewTable (ID INT IDENTITY(1, 1));GO
SET IDENTITY_INSERT NewTable ON;
GO
INSERT INTO NewTable (ID)
SELECT * FROM OldTable;
GO
SET IDENTITY_INSERT NewTable OFF;
GO
DROP TABLE OldTable;
GO
EXEC sp_rename 'NewTable', 'OldTable';
GO
And Vice Versa
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Sean Pearce (6/29/2014)
Welsh Corgi (6/28/2014)
Sean Pearce (5/21/2014)
Welsh Corgi (5/20/2014)
You are right you can't set the Identity Property to true.You can set the identity property to false by simply going into design mode and set the property to false.
I just wanted to know how to do it in T-SQL.
I guess I could find out how to do so by setting up a trace.
Thank you.
SSMS will create a new table, copy the data across, delete your original table and rename the new one.
I did not see the command to change the column to an identity in you example?
There isn't one.
CREATE TABLE NewTable (ID INT IDENTITY(1, 1));GO
SET IDENTITY_INSERT NewTable ON;
GO
INSERT INTO NewTable (ID)
SELECT * FROM OldTable;
GO
SET IDENTITY_INSERT NewTable OFF;
GO
DROP TABLE OldTable;
GO
EXEC sp_rename 'NewTable', 'OldTable';
GO
And Vice Versa
ok, thank you:-)
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