Set start value for column with autoincrement

Question

I have a table Orders with the following fields:

Id | SubTotal | Tax | Shipping | DateCreated

The Id c

Answer 1

You need to set the Identity seed to that value:

CREATE TABLE orders
(
 id int IDENTITY(9586,1)
)

To alter an existing table:

ALTER TABLE orders ALTER COLUMN Id INT IDENTITY (9586, 1);

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