identity seed questions

My client has a need for the auto identity field to be 6 digits in length starting with the number 001000. They want the leading 0's preserved since this will be a casenumber. Even if I set the identity seed to 001000 it gets rid of the leading 0's. How can I get it to keep those?

Since the identity property works on numeric column leading zeroes doesn't matter. You can however use an identity column with seed 1000 and then use a computed column that formats the value in the desired format. See example below:

create table #t ( i int identity(1000, 1) not null check(i between 1000 and 999999), inum as right(replicate('0', 6) + cast(i as varchar), 6))

insert into #t default values

select * from #t

drop table #t

identity range check constraint

SQL 2005 merge replication.
I took the defaults on an article for publication - auto identity
management and the default ranges. If I attempt to insert >2000 rows
(the size of the 2 ranges assigned), I recieve the following error:
The insert failed. It conflicted with an identity range check
constraint in database 'DHD_73', replicated table
'dbo.tblAlaska_Facility_Manager', column 'facilityID'. If the identity
column is automatically managed by replication, update the range as
follows: for the Publisher, execute sp_adjustpublisheridentityrange;
for the Subscriber, run the Distribution Agent or the Merge Agent.
Does this mean I cannot do an insert of more than 2000 rows at a time
to this particular article?
TIA,
john g.
Sorry, I forgot to add, I am doing the inserts on the publisher
jg
jgmein...@.gmail.com wrote:
> SQL 2005 merge replication.
> I took the defaults on an article for publication - auto identity
> management and the default ranges. If I attempt to insert >2000 rows
> (the size of the 2 ranges assigned), I recieve the following error:
> The insert failed. It conflicted with an identity range check
> constraint in database 'DHD_73', replicated table
> 'dbo.tblAlaska_Facility_Manager', column 'facilityID'. If the identity
> column is automatically managed by replication, update the range as
> follows: for the Publisher, execute sp_adjustpublisheridentityrange;
> for the Subscriber, run the Distribution Agent or the Merge Agent.
> Does this mean I cannot do an insert of more than 2000 rows at a time
> to this particular article?
> TIA,
> john g.
|||You can batch up the inserts, or increase the size of the assigned rabge,
otherwise you're stuck.
Cheers,
Paul Ibison SQL Server MVP, www.replicationanswers.com .
|||Check the constraint to see what the range is. You can insert up to this
value and then run a sync. This should update the range.
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> SQL 2005 merge replication.
> I took the defaults on an article for publication - auto identity
> management and the default ranges. If I attempt to insert >2000 rows
> (the size of the 2 ranges assigned), I recieve the following error:
> The insert failed. It conflicted with an identity range check
> constraint in database 'DHD_73', replicated table
> 'dbo.tblAlaska_Facility_Manager', column 'facilityID'. If the identity
> column is automatically managed by replication, update the range as
> follows: for the Publisher, execute sp_adjustpublisheridentityrange;
> for the Subscriber, run the Distribution Agent or the Merge Agent.
> Does this mean I cannot do an insert of more than 2000 rows at a time
> to this particular article?
> TIA,
> john g.
>

Identity Increment = Greyed Out (actually, all properties are greyed out)

I am looking to make the primary key auto increment by 1. I have found by looking around the internet that you need to do this in the Tables -> [Table Name] -> Columns -> [Column Name], Properties window, and I see the "Identity Increment" however all of the properties there are greyed out -- I can't access them.

Any ideas on how to make this work?

For some background:

I'm running SQL Server 2005 with Visual Studio 2005. To create this database, I right-clicked on my project, and went to 'Add SQL Database', I filled in the columns all from within visual studio.

Identity Increment is only avalible for integer types, like tinyint, smallint, int, bigint, etc.

identity fields

how do I start an auto increment field at a certain number? other than 1CREATE TABLE test (
test_id int NOT NULL IDENTITY (100, 1)
)

will create a table where the test_id column starts at 100|||Open desired table in design mode
Set the Identity property to "Yes" for the desired field
Set Identity Seed property to the desired value

You can even set the increment value here.

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Identity / Auto Incrementing Column

Hi,

I have an auto incrementing int column setup which serves as my unique primary key. Just wondering what happens when the auto increment reaches the limit? Will it recycle numbers from the begining (who's rows have obviously been deleted by this stage)?

trenyboy wrote:

Hi,

I have an auto incrementing int column setup which serves as my unique primary key. Just wondering what happens when the auto increment reaches the limit? Will it recycle numbers from the begining (who's rows have obviously been deleted by this stage)?

since int's maximum size is 2G once it's limit is exceeded you will have an arithmetic overflow. same goes with bigint.. although by then 2GB of rows this is a prime candidate for partioning already...