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IDENT_CURRENT question

  • October 28, 2014 at 7:48 am

    #397569

    I ran some codes below.

    SELECT count(*) FROM Member // result: 1106

    select Max(ID) FROM Member // result: 1347

    SELECT IDENT_CURRENT ('Member' ) // result: 1348

    Question: before insert a record, why IDENT_CURRENT return 1348?

  • October 28, 2014 at 8:41 am

    #1755244

    It's the last ID generated for any session in any scope. So another session may have experienced a rollback or something else that caused it to generate an identity value and then not use it. For more details, see the entry in Books Online.

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