identity-column

Can I use the DBCC CHECKIDENT(<table_name>, RESEED, value) command to reset an identity column current value to the original one in SQL Server 2008? If yes, is this the correct way of doing this operation without having any drawback? If not, is there an alternate way of doing this? Can I use the DBCC CHECKIDENT command to reset an identity column current value to the original one in SQL Server 2008? Yes. If yes, is this the correct way of doing this operation without having any drawback? This is the one documented way of doing it. Possible drawbacks: you could end up getting duplicate IDENTITY

I have a matrix 10x4, and I have a vector that has 10 elements. Each element is an column index of that matrix that should be retrieved. Here is the example: > M.mat [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [1,] -0.4236174 0.2228897 0.11676857 0.16906735 [2,] -0.4860078 0.9862164 -2.04735716 -0.33708521 [3,] -0.6931023 -0.2255126 -0.58214338 -0.08705187 [4,] 0.4048169 0.8713917 0.38543781 -1.38207954 [5,] 2.4005044 1.2483514 0.66759229 -1.33667156 [6,] -1.2083913 0.2389032 0.29554618 -0.05910570 [7,] 0.8055317 -0.7978780 -0.31873361 0.57248675 [8,] -0.1606493 0.4110878 0.90236993 -0.62311446 [9,] 0.3721249 0

I want to create a list of columns in SQL Server 2005 that have identity columns and their corresponding table in T-SQL. Results would be something like: TableName, ColumnName DaveCrawford Another potential way to do this for SQL Server, which has less reliance on the system tables (which are subject to change, version to version) is to use the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views: select COLUMN_NAME, TABLE_NAME from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS where COLUMNPROPERTY(object_id(TABLE_SCHEMA+'.'+TABLE_NAME), COLUMN_NAME, 'IsIdentity') = 1 order by TABLE_NAME sys.columns.is_identity = 1 e.g., select o.name, c

I am trying to add bulk data in database from CSV file. Employee table has a column ID (PK) auto-incremented. CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Employee]( [id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [Name] [varchar](50) NULL, [Address] [varchar](50) NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] I am using this query: BULK INSERT Employee FROM 'path\tempFile.csv ' WITH (FIRSTROW = 2,KEEPIDENTITY,FIELDTERMINATOR = ',' , ROWTERMINATOR = '\n'); .CSV File - Name,Address name1,addr test 1 name2,addr test 2 but it results in this error message: Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the specified codepage) for row 2