How Do You Tell What Next Identity Column Will Be?

Question

Is there a tsql query to tell what SQL server identity column value it expects to use for the next row insert?

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Answer 1

This piece of sql will give you the next identity column value (there are probably many reasons not to repeat this snippet in production code)

declare @nextid int;
declare @previousid int;

begin tran

 insert into dbo.TestTable (Col1) values ('11');
 select @nextid = SCOPE_IDENTITY(); 

rollback tran

 select @previousid = @nextid -1
 DBCC CHECKIDENT('dbo.TestTable', RESEED, @previousid);
 select @nextid

this stackoverflow question gives some extra information - sql-identity-autonumber-is-incremented-even-with-a-transaction-rollback