How to add a new identity column to a table in SQL Server?

Question

I am using SQL Server 2008 Enterprise. I want to add an identity column (as unique clustered index and primary key) to an existing table. Integer based auto-increasing by 1

Answer 1

Not always you have permissions for DBCC commands.

Solution #2:

create table #tempTable1 (Column1 int)
declare @new_seed varchar(20) = CAST((select max(ID) from SomeOtherTable) as varchar(20))
exec (N'alter table #tempTable1 add ID int IDENTITY('+@new_seed+', 1)')