The DBCC CHECKIDENT management command is used to reset the identity counter. The command syntax is: DBCC CHECKIDENT (table_name [, { NORESEED | { RESEED [, new_reseed_value ]}}]) [ WITH NO_INFOMSGS ] Example: DBCC CHECKIDENT (‘[TestTable]’, RESEED, 0); IMPORTANT: The following example forces the current identity value in the AddressTypeID column in the AddressType table to a value […]
@@IDENTITY returns the last identity column value created on a connection, regardless of the scope. That means it could return the last identity value you produced, or it could return a value generated by a user-defined function or trigger, possibly one fired because of your insert. In order to access the last identity value created […]
SET IDENTITY_INSERT MyTable ON INSERT INTO MyTable (IdentityColumn, col2, col3, …) VALUES (IdentityValue, col2value, col3value, …) SET IDENTITY_INSERT MyTable OFF Note that you can not insert explicit value for identity column in table ‘MyTable’ when IDENTITY_INSERT is set to OFF.
DBCC CHECKIDENT(‘TableName’, RESEED, 0) Note that after running DBCC CHECKIDENT(‘TableName’, RESEED, 0): – Newly created tables will start with identity 0 – Existing tables will continue with identity 1