How do you check if IDENTITY_INSERT is set to ON or OFF in SQL Server?

I've searched for this, but threads in which it appeared tended to have answers from people who didn't understand the question.

Take the following syntax:

SET IDENTITY_INSERT Table1 ON

How do you do something more like this:

GET IDENTITY_INSERT Table1

I don't want to do anything whatsoever to the data in the database or to the settings to get this information though. Thanks!

Eon

Since SET IDENTITY_INSERT is a session sensitive, it is managed in buffer level without storing somewhere. This means we do not need to check the IDENTITY_INSERT status as we never use this key word in current session.

Sorry, no help for this.

Great question though :)

Source: Here

Update There are ways maybe to do this, also seen in the site I linked, IMO, it is too much effort to be useful.

if

(select max(id) from MyTable) < (select max(id) from inserted)

--Then you may be inserting a record normally

BEGIN
    set @I = 1 --SQL wants something to happen in the "IF" side of an IF/ELSE
END

ELSE --You definitely have IDENTITY_INSERT on.  Done as ELSE instead of the other way around so that if there is no inserted table, it will run anyway


BEGIN
.... Code that shouldn't run with IDENTITY_INSERT on
END

In summary:

Nathan's solution is the fastest:
```
SELECT OBJECTPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID('MyTable'), 'TableHasIdentity');
```
- when using an API wrapper, one can reduce the entire check to just checking for rows. For instance when using C#'s SqlDataReaders property HasRows and a query construct like:
```
SELECT CASE OBJECTPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID('MyTable'), 'TableHasIdentity')
       WHEN 1 THEN '1' ELSE NULL END
```

Ricardo's solution allows more flexibility but requires the Column's identity name

SELECT * FROM sys.columns WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID('MyTable', 'U') 
                        AND name = 'MyTableIdentityColumnName';

Bogdan Bodanov solution, using try/catch would work as well, but additional checking should confine exception handling to cases of IDENTITY_INSERT is already ON for table 'MyTable'. Cannot perform SET operation for table 'MyTable';

If you're attempting to turn off IDENTITY_INSERT for some other table to avoid getting an error when you want to set IDENTITY_INSERT on, the following may also work for you. As other have said on this thread IDENTITY_INSERT is a session setting with no direct visibility. However I made the interesting discovery that SET IDENTITY_INSERT OFF doesn't error out for any table that has an identity whether or not IDENTITY_INSERT is ON for that table. So it occurred to me that I could just call SET IDENTITY_INSERT ... OFF for every table with an identity in the database. It feels a bit like a brute force solution, but I found that the following dynamic SQL block did the trick very nicely.

---- make sure IDENTITY_INSERT is OFF ----
DECLARE @cmd NVARCHAR(MAX)
SET @cmd = CAST((SELECT 'SET IDENTITY_INSERT ' + 
             QUOTENAME(OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME(t.object_id)) + '.' + 
             QUOTENAME(t.name) + ' OFF' + CHAR(10)
             FROM sys.columns c 
             JOIN sys.tables t ON t.object_id = c.object_id
             WHERE c.is_identity = 1 
             ORDER BY 1 FOR XML PATH('')) AS NVARCHAR(MAX))
EXEC sp_executesql @cmd

You can discover whether or not identity_insert is on, and if so for what table using the code below.

declare @tableWithIdentity varchar(max) = '';
SET IDENTITY_INSERT ExampleTable ON

begin try
  create table #identityCheck (id int identity(1,1))
  SET IDENTITY_INSERT #identityCheck ON
  drop table #identityCheck
end try
begin catch
  declare @msg varchar(max) = error_message()
  set @tableWithIdentity= @msg;
  set @tableWithIdentity = 
  SUBSTRING(@tableWithIdentity,charindex('''',@tableWithIdentity,1)+1, 10000)

  set @tableWithIdentity = SUBSTRING(@tableWithIdentity,1, charindex('''',@tableWithIdentity,1)-1)

  print @msg;
  drop table #identityCheck
end catch

if @tableWithIdentity<>''
begin
  print ('Name of table with Identity_Insert set to ON: ' + @tableWithIdentity)
end
else
begin
  print 'No table currently has Identity Insert Set to ON'
end

Ricardo

If you want to know about the session variable... Good question, but I cant see where this information would be usefull. In normal execution to check a normal table response to an insert, this should work!

-- If you only want to know if there is identity insert on a given table:

select is_identity
from sys.columns
where object_id = OBJECT_ID('MyTable', 'U') and name = 'column_Name'

-- Or... Use this if you want to execute something depending on the result:

if exists (select *
from sys.columns
where object_id = OBJECT_ID('MyTable', 'U') and is_identity = 1)
... your code considering identity insert
else
... code that should not run with identity insert

Have fun!

Very good question. I Have same issue. May be you can try to reset IDENTITY_INSERT using TRY/CATCH? For example, you make the job but not sure if the job is finished and IDENTITY_INSERT is set to OFF.

Why you don't try:

BEGIN TRY 
...
END TRY 
BEGIN CATCH
SET IDENTITY_INSERT table OFF;
END CATCH;

Also I am not sure that this is working correctly but I see that adding only SET IDENTITY_INSERT ... OFF did not return error. So you can set just in case in the end SET IDENTITY_INSERT ... OFF.

you can also use the ObjectProperty method to determine if a table has an identity:

DECLARE @MyTableName nvarchar(200)
SET @MyTableName = 'TestTable'
SELECT CASE OBJECTPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID(@MyTableName), 'TableHasIdentity') 
WHEN 1 THEN 'has identity' 
ELSE 'no identity columns' 
END as HasIdentity

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10637976/how-do-you-check-if-identity-insert-is-set-to-on-or-off-in-sql-server

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