For those still interested, I whipped up a script to get all of the maximum values for any columns within a database that are defined as integers. (It should be easy to modify if you're interested in, say, smallints or tinyints).

I'm not normally fond of cursors, but I figured it would be alright as this is a "toolbox" type of script, and not necessarily something that you would want to incorporate into a stored proc, for instance.

If anyone sees improvements that can be made, have at it.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/contributions/1468.asp

TroyK

I use the following script to get the tables having identity values....

SELECT table_name
      ,column_name
      ,IDENT_CURRENT(table_name) as Identity_value
      ,data_type
 FROM information_schema.columns
WHERE COLUMNPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID(table_name),column_name,'IsIdentity')=1
ORDER BY table_name

Why bother with system tables, when you can get the same with schema view and functions?

Nice, Ravi!

I agree -- I don't like to query the sytem tables directly unless absolutely necessary. This is a slick solution -- obviously it didn't occur to me to check the system functions.

TroyK

There's no need to "cheat" and use the syscolumns and sysobjects tables.  While INFORMATION_SCHEMA doesn't have the information on identity columns, they OBJECTPROPERTY(<objectid>, 'TableHasIdentity') function tells you which tables have an identity column and you can use it in the WHERE clause to filter the tables from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.  You can also use the COLUMNPROPERTY function to test each column.

I see that a previous post identified that also.  Instead of keeping around a script, I try and code scripts into User-Defined Fucntions (UDF)s so that they're always in the database.  Mine follows.  You'll also need the function udf_SQL_DataTypeString from here:

http://www.novicksoftware.com/UDFofWeek/Vol1/T-SQL-UDF-Volume-1-Number-18-udf_SQL_DatatypeString.htm

SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[udf_Tbl_IdentityTAB] (
      @Table_Name_Pattern sysname = NULL -- Pattern for table
                                 -- names to include or NULL for all
) RETURNS TABLE
   -- No SCHEMABINDING due to use of INFORMATION_SCHEMA
/*
* Returns a table of information about the identity columns
* in tables including their column, data type, and the
* seed, increment, and current value.
*
* Example:
select * FROM dbo.udf_Tbl_IdentityTAB(default)
* History:
* When Who Description
* ------------- ------- -----------------------------------------
* 2006-04-02    anovick Added IsMsShipped test
* 2003-04-02    anovick Initial Coding
*
* © Copyright 2002, 2006 Andrew Novick http://www.NovickSoftware.com
* You may use this function in any of your SQL Server databases
* including databases that you sell, so long as they contain
* other unrelated database objects. You may not publish this
* UDF either in print or electronically except where posted by the author.
****************************************************************/
AS RETURN

SELECT TOP 100 PERCENT WITH TIES
        T.TABLE_SCHEMA
      , T.TABLE_NAME
      , COALESCE(C.COLUMN_NAME, '<not available to you>')
                              as [COLUMN_NAME]
      , C.DATA_TYPE as DATA_TYPE
      , IDENT_SEED(T.TABLE_NAME) AS Seed
      , IDENT_INCR(T.TABLE_NAME) AS Increment
      , IDENT_CURRENT(T.TABLE_NAME) [Current_Value]
    FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES T
         LEFT OUTER JOIN ( -- LOJ - COLUMN SECURITY COULD LIMIT ACCESS
              SELECT TABLE_SCHEMA, TABLE_NAME, COLUMN_NAME
                      , ORDINAL_POSITION
                      , dbo.udf_SQL_DataTypeString (DATA_TYPE
                                             , CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH
                                             , NUMERIC_PRECISION
                                             , NUMERIC_SCALE) AS DATA_TYPE
                     FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.[COLUMNS]
                           WHERE 1=COLUMNPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID(TABLE_SCHEMA
                                                          + '.' + TABLE_NAME)
                                                   , COLUMN_NAME
                                                   , 'IsIdentity')
          ) C
            ON T.TABLE_SCHEMA = C.TABLE_SCHEMA
            AND T.TABLE_NAME = C.TABLE_NAME
WHERE T.TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE'

      AND (@Table_Name_Pattern IS NULL
                     OR T.TABLE_NAME LIKE @Table_Name_Pattern)
      AND 1= OBJECTPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID(T.TABLE_NAME),
                                          'TableHasIdentity')
      AND NOT 1=OBJECTPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID(T.TABLE_NAME) ,
                                          'IsMsShipped')
ORDER BY T.TABLE_SCHEMA, T.TABLE_NAME