Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 11/24/07 17:25

Mike (ablyplus@yahoo.com) writes:
> I want to use Identity specification because I'd like to get
> autoincremental values started from 1 to n

For the existing data? Why? Assuming that the id is an artificial key,
the values are of no importance, and 5 is as good as 98987.




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