How to drop identity property of Column

In the tutorial I am doing I have been requested to change a field in the colums properties of a table.  The ID column is currentl displaying NO and NO again for "is aIdentity.  I can Highlight the values but cannot change to yes.  either in the properties talbe or in the properties window on the right hand side of IDE interface.  How do I change that value?

MIKE E

I have a choice list column containing dropdown values. I crawled the content source and created Managed Property to map it.

Also Configured Advanced Search webpart to display the property. But when I pick the property and perform search with values then no results are returned.

Can any one can help me out.?

Thanks in Advance.!

Dear friends,

I have a transactional replication between A and B where A replicates its data into B . the schema of A and B are EXACTLY same. I have a table "t" in both databases which has an IDENTITY column with name "c" and it is set to be NOT FOR REPLICATION in both databases. Indeed I have "A.t.c " and "B.t.c " columns. Also I should mentioned that I never do any changes in B.t table. It should just get the last data from A.t (but because of some reasons I need to have a same schema).

I do the following steps :

1- Add a new row to A.t . (and see the added row in B.t after a few seconds either )

2- update this added row's c2 column (not the c which is  the identity and PK column)

3- an exception I receive in Replication Monitor which says I cannot update the B.t.c column because it is an Identity column!!!... (I checked the related MS's related update stored procedure)...

the question is why it wants to update the Identity column which is not needed indeed!?

Hi,

I have requirement.

I have a temporary table with and identity column,table will get populated with data on the execution of a dataflow task except the identity Column.now I need to insert value into identity column.

How can I acheive this.

Hi.. my table contains an identity column - QID - (1,1)

the row count starts with 1 and increments by 1.. if i delete any row and then add a new row to the table the QID field is not incrementing properly..

eg:: say i have 50 rows in a table.. QID field (Identity Column) starts from 1 and goes till 50...

now if i delete the 25th row... and then add a new row to the table, the QID field value should be 50 for the new row.. but in my case it is 51...

i doubt that auto commit option must have enabled somewhere.. so it happens like this.. ny wayz i am new to SQL.. pls help me to fix this issue...

Hello All,

I have a Pull Transactional Replication in SQL 2000.

To enable the copying of Identity columns, my subscriber Insert stored procs are modified to mark

SET IDENTITY_INSERT TableName ON

In the end, I set it to Off.

The environment is stable for 2 years. Now we are upgrading to SQL 2008.

Do I still need to do the above step?

I have noticed that SQL 20088 is even updating Subscriber table for schema changes also.

I am not sure if MS took care of that issue in SQL 2008.

Please let me know your inputs.

Thanks.

Hi all

I am using SQL CE 3.5, and I created a table with Identity column as PK (say I have columns ID, Name), but for somehow the table has very strange behavior. When I do insert statement

insert into table_a (Name) values ('Test Name')

I got message "ErrorMessage: The column cannot contain null values. [ Column name = ID,Table name = table_a]".

Then I ran

set identity_insert table_a off

And run the same insert statement above, I got "ErrorMessage: A duplicate value cannot be inserted into a unique index. [ Table name = table_a,Constraint name = PK_table_a ]"

Any idea what did I mess up with the table here? I checked carefully, the column Identitiy attribute is "True", Identity seed is 1, Identity increatment is 1.

Thanks

Hardy

I am teaching a beginning class on SQL Server 2008 (not Express, and not R2), and we have begun using Management Studio.  One of the exercises included creating a small table with an identity column.  I then asked the students to insert some data just to see how the identity column works.

Strangely enough several of the students discovered that the identity column was increasing not by 1 but by some other integer.  I checked the Increment property and it was 1 in all cases.

What would cause this?  I have never see this before.

I recently moved a .net site from one machine to another, now for some reason one of the stored procedures is throwing an exception when attempting to insert! 

Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: An explicit value for the identity column in table 'dbo.tbl_Events' can only be specified when a column list is used and IDENTITY_INSERT is ON

BTW, the column in question does have the identity set to Yes in management studio

I was using originally SQL 2005, now its on SQLexpress 2008

stored procedure:

ALTER

HI All,

I has been implemented Merge replication in sql server 2008, in that some tables Id locums are add 2000 and 20000 no add automatically incremented, why it was happens how to resolved this issues? if i want to get continues number what will it do, please help me in this ..... this is very urgent for me.

 

Prasad

How does sql handle concurrent insertion of rows into a table that has a integer identity column for a primary key?  Does it deadlock?  Does it just lock / block while inserts are performed one at a time?  My client app may be running twenty concurrent thread resulting in 20 concurrent inserts.  Is this a bad design from a performance perspective?  Is it better to use a different unique ID such as a GUID?

thanks

How can the identity column be always increased by one even if some rows are deleted.

For example, the Identity property is set for increase by 1 and i added 4 rows, i deleted the 3rd and 4th row, the next one added should have 3 but not 4.

Can any one help me on this.

Thank you in advance for the help.