How to reset identity seed in Sql Azure

Question

I have tried the following in order to reset my Identity Seed of a column:

DBCC CHECKIDENT (\'dbo.Stuff\', RESEED, 0)

This does not work in

Answer 1

I have recently come up against this problem myself. I resolved it by inserting and deleting items in the table until I reached the desired seed value.

In the example below, this will reseed the Users table so the next new item will have Id of 3500.

BEGIN TRANSACTION
GO

DECLARE @max_id int

SELECT @max_id = max([Id]) FROM users

WHILE (@max_id < 3499)
BEGIN
    INSERT INTO Users (Username, Password) VALUES ('','')
    SELECT @max_id = max([Id]) FROM Users
    DELETE FROM Users WHERE [Id] = @max_id
END

COMMIT

Hope this helps.