Hi All,
URGENT requirement !!!

In my table, i wants to alter the column namde 'ID' as identity column for that table. 29 rows are also their with unique numbers and this a int type column. Please tell me how to this from query-analyzer (not from Entr.Mngr.)

Thanks to all my friends,

Hans Raj

You cannot use alter to change the column to identity, you will have to use EM.

Yup ... and if you inspect what EM does when you do this by looking at the generated script, you'll see that it "modifies" a column to be an identity by creating a temporary table with the new column definition as an identity column, turning IDENTITY_INSERT on, copying the contents of the old table into the new one, dropping the old table then renaming the temporary to the old name. It'll also deal with any indexes or primary key constraints by dropping and re-adding them.

If you absolutely must do this via QA, use EM, make your changes, generate the script, save the script, discard the design changes, then later execute the script you saved.

Jeff Mason
Custom Apps, Inc.
www.custom-apps.com

Jeff.. I was wondering how EM did this. How do you see all the steps it takes to do as you said? Just curious..

Thanks... Jim

In EM, make your design changes to the table. Notice that the script icon in the toolbar (3rd from the left in table design mode) enables when you make any design change to a table. If you click it, you'll see the generated script that EM will use to make your changes. You can save this script to a file or copy it to the clipboard.

Very handy sometimes...


Jeff Mason
Custom Apps, Inc.
www.custom-apps.com

Thanks Jeff,

   I never notticed this before. I figured thhere was a way. That is really cool, and can come in handy.

Thanks again....

Jim