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 ...

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, ...

I Have an application that creates some form of log in a SQL table that has an identity column. An auditor checked these logs and found some gaps in the identity column sequence. Now, I know that this ...

Both have identical column structures. What I need to do is run an INSERT against Table1 to insert all the data from that table that meets certain requirements in my WHERE clause into Table2. Basic ...

Database performance is rarely a single "fix it and forget it" task. SQL Server workloads shift over time. A sluggish ...

SQL Server is primarily built around a row-based table structure that connects related data elements in different tables to one another, avoiding the need to redundantly store data in multiple places ...