Not Able To Create An Identity Column For An Existing Database Table
Feb 1, 2008
I am working with a table in SQL server. I have a column that I want to designate
as an identity column. I am not able to do this, because the field for
"Identity Specification" is not editiable.
What I did was I went to sql server, right clicked and selected "Modify".
The column properties dialog box/edit grid is then displayed with attributes
that I can modify.
There are two major nodes in this dialog box. One is named "General" and the other
is named "Table Designer". I expand the "Table Designer" node and then go to the
node labeled "Identity Specification" It is here where I would like to edit the
values.
The values that are listed for edit are listed below. BUT, the problem is that
I can place my cursor in those fields, but I am not able to change/edit them.
Can anyone tell me what the problem is here? and how I can fix it?
+Identity Specification
(Is Identity)
Identity Increment
Identity Seed
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Sep 11, 2006
I removed all constraints in order to load a bunch of data into a table, now I'm wondering if I can add an identity column to this table which does contain data or if I have to create a new table with the identity column and insert the data into that.
thx
Kat
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Nov 20, 2013
I have created a table as below mentioned. Then I want to alter the ID column as identity(1,1) without dropping the table as well as losing the data.
create table dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int not null,
descript varchar(255) null,
T_date datetime not null
)
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Sep 3, 2015
We want to add a new int identity column as a primary key to an already existing table that has a primary key on Guid. Here is the DDL:
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[VResID] [uniqueidentifier] NOT NULL,
[Mes] [varchar](max) NOT NULL,
[PID] [uniqueidentifier] NOT NULL,
[Segt] [int] NOT NULL,
[code]....
Also we currently have 3 million rows on this table. Is having an integer column as identity column and primary key better or shd I consider using BigInt?
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Jun 10, 2015
how to add identity column into existing table in sql.
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Mar 28, 2008
Hi all, please help. I m trying to create an "empty" table from existing table for the audit trigger purpose.
For now, i am trying to create an empty audit table for every table in a database named "pubs", and it's seem won't work.
Please advise.. Thanks in advance.
Here is my code:
Code Snippet
USE pubs
DECLARE @TABLE_NAME sysname
DECLARE @AUDIT_TABLE VARCHAR(50)
SELECT @TABLE_NAME= MIN(TABLE_NAME) FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
WHERE
TABLE_TYPE= 'BASE TABLE'
AND TABLE_NAME NOT LIKE 'audit%'
AND TABLE_NAME!= 'sysdiagrams'
AND TABLE_NAME!= 'Audit'
AND TABLE_NAME = 'sales'
WHILE @TABLE_NAME IS NOT NULL
BEGIN
SELECT @TABLE_NAME= MIN(TABLE_NAME) FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Tables
WHERE TABLE_NAME> @TABLE_NAME
AND TABLE_NAME = 'sales'
SELECT @AUDIT_TABLE = 'Audit'+''@TABLE_NAME''
SELECT * INTO @AUDIT_TABLE
FROM @TABLE_NAME
TRUNCATE TABLE @AUDIT_TABLE
ALTER TABLE @AUDIT_TABLE ADD UserAction Char(10),AuditStartTime Char(50),AuditUser Char(50)
SELECT @TABLE_NAME= MIN(TABLE_NAME) FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Tables
WHERE TABLE_NAME> @TABLE_NAME
AND TABLE_TYPE= 'BASE TABLE'
AND TABLE_NAME!= 'sysdiagrams'
AND TABLE_NAME!= 'Audit'
AND TABLE_NAME NOT LIKE 'audit%'
END
Thanks. ..
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Mar 5, 2004
Hi,
I have a column that is unique that I would like to make into an IDENTITIY column after I insert some data into it.
I tried
alter table <table_name>
alter column <col_name> int Identity (1,1)
but it fails.
Ajay
WORD4LIFE
(http://www.word4life.com)
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Jul 20, 2005
Hi(SQL Server 2000)I have an existing table (t) with a column that is NOT an identity column(t.ID), but it has manually inserted "row numbers". I want to make thiscolumn become an identity column. This column is a key field to othertables, so I want to keep the row numbers that are allready inserted.From the Query Analyzer, how do I do this?Thanks in advance!Regards,Gunnar VøyenliEDB-konsulent asNORWAY
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Jun 19, 2008
Hi,
I am having problem in bulk update of a sql server table haning identity column from a datatable( has no identity column) using sqlbulkcopy. I tried several approaches, but it does not show any error nor is the table getting updated. But the identity value seems to getting increased every time.
thanks.
varun
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Jul 20, 2004
Hi,
How to Change Increment Value for existing Identity Column (MS SQL2000) ?
I know how to change the seed :
DBCC CHECKIDENT (activity, RESEED,4233596)
but I need the future id generated with step 2
4233596
4233598
4233600
I would like to do it using T-sql because I will need to do it every day after syncronising with another SQL server .
Thanks,
Natalia
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Mar 30, 2006
Hi All,
Can any body tell me that how we can attach IDENTITY property to an existing int column
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Mar 7, 2008
How do i drop/remove the identity property for an existing column in all Tables where the Identity column is a primary key.
The Script below was used to find all the tables that have an Identity Column as a primary key in a database. Now i want to remove the identity property from the Identity Columns that have a primary key in the database.
select pk.table_name, c.column_name,
from information_schema.table_constraints pk
INNER JOIN information_schema.key_column_usage c ON c.TABLE_NAME = pk.TABLE_NAME
and c.constraint_name = pk.constraint_name
where constraint_type = 'PRIMARY KEY'
and COLUMNPROPERTY(object_id(pk.table_name), column_name, 'IsIdentity') = 1
ORDER BY pk.table_name, c.column_name
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Jul 21, 2006
I re-created a publication that was having problems and it gives this error when I start the snapshot agent from SQL Server Management Studio: I am stuck on how to resolve - any ideas?
"The publisher's identity range allocation entry could not be found in MSmerge_identity_range table. Transaction count after EXECUTE indicates that a commit or ROLLBACK TRANSACTION statement is missing. Previous Count = 1, current count = 2."
select * from MSmerge_identity_range returns 19 entries but I don't know how to fix.
I have tried deleting and re-creating but always get this error.
My other publications and subscriptions are working fine and I was able to create a new test publication that worked but can not get this one to work that worked fine up until today.
Any ideas?
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Mar 2, 2004
Has anybody ever tried to do this. I can't figure it out. All I want to do is take an existing table that already has values in the column that I want to change and add the identity property to yes and set the identity seed and increment to a specific number. I know you can do it in the CREATE TABLE statement but is there a way to use the ALTER TABLE command?
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Apr 26, 2008
Hi Friends,
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Thanks in Advance
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May 11, 2004
Hi, I have the lovely task of overhauling some of our SQL-based systems. I've found many tables that don't have unique identifying numbers that really should have them. I've searched around and people keep mentioning the Identity field as being similar to Autonumber in Access. The only examples I could find involved setting up a new table... but I need to add (and populate) an identity column to an existing database table. Does anyone know the command for this?
Example... my table is called PACountyTown. It currently has 3 columns: County, Town, and Area. I wish to call the identity-ish field RecordID.
Thanks in advance!
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Mar 7, 2008
Need help,
I'm a newby to SQL and looking for how-to-help.
I have an existing DB and within a certain table, I have created a new Column via Studio manager, but need help with the following:
Need to make the new Col "Unique, and Indexed" but cannot see anywhere in studio manager interface to do it.
Thanks.
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Mar 21, 2006
Hi there,
I'm new to SQL Server please help me, i want to create identity column(AutoNumber) when creating views.
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Jul 28, 2006
Hello,
I'd like to create a temporary table with the same schema as an exiting table. How can I do this without hard coding the column definitions into the temporary table definition?
I'd like to do something like:
CREATE TABLE #tempTable LIKE anotherTable
..instead of...
CREATE TABLE #tempTable (id INT PRIMARY KEY, created DATETIME NULL etc...
I'm sure there must be a simple way to do this!
Many thanks,
Ben S
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Note : I have a plain copy of all the sql server directory with all the files including the database not a SQLServer backup done with the wizards.
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I want to create a new table, EnglandFinal with all the data from the three tables although I'm guessing it would not be a good idea to copy the primary keys (ID column) as they would clash.
I have played around with CREATE and INSERT into and UNION but I get various errors. I'm sure I've done this before!
This creates a table from a single table :
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Hello All,
I was wondering if anybody can help me with the following question:
I'm working on the application where the Database, it's table (2) and several stored procedures are involved. The database is SQL Server 2000. It's also very old and involves a lot of operations, stored proc and so on. I just need to re-write a piece of the app which is using existing stored proc. Most of them are DELETE, INSERT and so on. I don't want to work with real stage DB and need to make a copy of the Database to my Dev box. So I tried:
* Right click, All Tasks, Export Data into the newly created database on my dev box.
That doesn't work, every time I try doing it, it fails somewhere in the middle of the process. I'm thinking it happens because of complexity of the database. I tried several options there already. Still nothing. I need the whole databse to be copied because I'm not sure which stored proc the app is using so I need them all, and tables too. Is there another way of doing this?
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May 10, 2007
Dear Friends... I'm having a problem...
I want to manually create the identity column for a table...
I have some dataflws, and in each dataflow I insert values in this table...
I need to start the controlflow in a SQL task to get the last ID and save it in a global variable with name D_INST_IDENTITY.
And in each dataflow I have a script component transform, to get the ID... using a local variable COUNTER! and for each row I increment this value...
Until this step there is no problem... the problem starts here...:
I need to refresh the global variable in the final of each dataflow in order that in the next sequence dataflow I have D_INST_IDENTITY refreshed......
D_INST_IDENTITY = D_INST_IDENTITY + COUNTER
How can I do it? I have a RowCount transform next the script component, but generates errors...
What do you think I can do it?
Thanks!!
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I know you can do it one table at a time in QA by clicking on the table
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Greetings! I just found this group after wasting hours trying to make
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I keep getting "this connection string is invalid can't use this to
connect to SQL Server" in the Database Setup tab.
The problem is that to create its own database, SSRS needs dbcreator
and securityadmin roles (please correct me if I'm wrong here). And I'm
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temporary dbcreator and securityadmin roles!
Is there any document or
something that I can use to convince him that SSRS will not do
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I simply need the ability using SQL to add columns in an existing table before (or after) columns that already exist.
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Nov 14, 2007
Hi everyone!
I just started with SQL and SQL Server 2005. I cantfind in my books how to add a column to an existing table. It should be a primary key, auto_increment column.
Hope someone can help, many thanks in advance
Greetings from Vienna Austria
landau
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