Microsoft SQL Server: Generate a sequence number, per day

Question

I\'m tasked to create an increasing sequence number per day for a project. Multiple processes (theoretically on multiple machines) need to generate this. It ends up as

Answer 1

If you don't mind the numbers not starting at one you could use DATEDIFF(dd, 0, GETDATE()) which is the number of days since 1-1-1900. That will increment every day.