Comments on: Reset Identity Column Value in SQL Server

By: Mick

Mick — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:49:39 +0000

Great, thanks. Strange thing though. It worked exactly as advertised testing in SQL Server Management Studio Express with SQL Server 2005. But when I coded it up in Java (using sqljdbc) running against the same database, the next value was not reseed + 1, but the reseed value itself (as haridsv found).

By: Ric

Ric — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:21:39 +0000

Brilliant, thanks

By: Yogesh

Yogesh — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 05:05:48 +0000

Thanks

By: Prodis

Prodis — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:03:09 +0000

Thank you for information. It was usefull.

By: haridsv

haridsv — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:39:09 +0000

Thanks a lot. For me, if I use the value of 0 to reseed, sql server 2005 didn’t start from 1, but actually from 0. May be the +1 statement is not correct?

By: Nirman Doshi

Nirman Doshi — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:55:26 +0000

Thanks a lot
i was searching for this

By: Amit Yenurkar

Amit Yenurkar — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:14:11 +0000

Thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!
Useful Stuff…………

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:39:39 +0000

Thanks Geek – worked like a charm

By: tdow

tdow — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:43:34 +0000

I created a script that will do what you want, lakshmi. Just replace MyId and mytbl below:

DECLARE @MaxId INT

SELECT @MaxId = MAX( MyId )
FROM mytbl (NOLOCK)

PRINT ‘Resetting Identity value to : ‘ + CONVERT( VARCHAR, @MaxId )
PRINT ”

DBCC CHECKIDENT (’mytbl’, RESEED, @MaxId)

PRINT ”

– Verify
DBCC CHECKIDENT (’mytbl’, NORESEED)

By: lakshmi

lakshmi — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:13:59 +0000

This is great. But how to make the following code work:
declare @seqno int
set @seqno = DBCC CHECKIDENT (orders, NORESEED)
DBCC CHECKIDENT ( ‘databasename.dbo.orders’,RESEED, @seqno)