Inserting rows into a table with one IDENTITY column only

Question

I have a table Administrator with only one column, adminId which is the primary-key. Because of business rules it has to be this way.

I\'d like to understand once a

Answer 1

You need to add the IDENTITY_INSERT to your select statement:

SET IDENTITY_INSERT MyTable ON

INSERT INTO MyTable
(AdminCol)

SELECT AdminColValue

 FROM Tableb

When you're done, make sure you remember to

SET IDENTITY_INSERT MyTable OFF

Here's a good description of how it works from BOL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa259221(SQL.80).aspx