Ars Scholae Palatinae 17y 798 May 23, 2008 #2 What RDBMS are you using?<BR><BR>IDENTITY is MS SQL Server specific (and thus not ANSI standard) Report O ...

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.

SQL Server has come a long way in the past 5 years, though the history seems to linger. Let's look at the recent history and see what the story is with database vulnerabilities.