Recommendations and examples for using the IDENTITY property to create surrogate keys on tables in Azure SQL Data Warehouse. A surrogate key on a table is a column with a unique identifier for each ...

Sometimes, as when testing a table in a Microsoft SQL Server database, you need to reset an identity column to its initial seed value, typically one. During testing, you populate the table with data, ...

Migrate database to the new Identity system The next step is to migrate the existing database to a schema required by the ASP.NET Identity system. To achieve this we run a SQL script which has a set ...

Arthur Fuller explores the value of identity columns and the usefulness of their arbitrary values and discusses ways to use SQL Server 2000's IDENTITY_INSERT setting. Despite your numerous ...