Monday, March 19, 2012

is it possible to alter a table to remove IDENTITY attribute

We have a column with an IDENTITY attribute and we no longer want this
column to have the IDENTITY attribute.
I know that set IDENTITY_INSERT will more or less ignore the IDENTITY for
that unit of work however I need the IDENTITY attribute totally removed so
that we don't have to set IDENTITY_INSERT each time.
Thanks in advanceYou can add a new column, copy the contents of the identity column to it,
drop the identity column, and rename the new column.
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Tom
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Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA
SQL Server MVP
Toronto, ON Canada
"TJT" <TJT@.nospam.com> wrote in message
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We have a column with an IDENTITY attribute and we no longer want this
column to have the IDENTITY attribute.
I know that set IDENTITY_INSERT will more or less ignore the IDENTITY for
that unit of work however I need the IDENTITY attribute totally removed so
that we don't have to set IDENTITY_INSERT each time.
Thanks in advance

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