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.

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 ...

I'm afraid your going to have to name the columns to in your select statement. You can use Query Analyzer to generate the SELECT statement and just edit out the identity column to help save some time.

Hello everyone.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 ...

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How to Create a Table From Query Results in Microsoft SQL. If your business uses relational databases to store data, you may have used a SQL SELECT clause to create new tables from query results.