DBCC CHECKIDENT Sets Identity to 0

Question

I\'m using this code to reset the identity on a table:

DBCC CHECKIDENT(\'TableName\', RESEED, 0)

This works fine most of the time, with the f

Answer 1

See also here: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/alexander_kuznetsov/archive/2008/06/26/fun-with-dbcc-chekident.aspx

This is documented behavior, why do you run CHECKIDENT if you recreate the table, in that case skip the step or use TRUNCATE (if you don't have FK relationships)