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 INSERT w/ IDENTITY Columns Utildayael Jul 21, 2006 Jump to latest Follow Reply ...

I've got this view defined on two tables, one of which has an identity field that auto increments. There seems to be no way to insert into this view. If I leave the auto-increment field blank it ...

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 ...