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, ...

inner join sys.identity_columns ic WITH(NOWAIT) ON c.is_identity=1 AND c.[object_id] = ic.[object_id] AND c.column_id = ic.column_id inner join sys.objects o WITH (NOWAIT) ON ...

I've got this view defined on two tables, one of which has an identity field that auto increments. There seems to be no way to insert into this view. If I leave the auto-increment field blank it barks ...