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kwiggans

Posted Tuesday, August 17, 2010 9:48 PM

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Matjaz Justin

Posted Wednesday, August 18, 2010 12:08 AM

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Perhaps is more easily as follows

INSERT dbo.TinyTally default values
GO 254

instead of

INSERT dbo.TinyTally(N) VALUES(IDENT_CURRENT('dbo.TinyTally'));
GO
INSERT dbo.TinyTally(N) VALUES(IDENT_CURRENT('dbo.TinyTally')+1);
GO 254 -- Really cool tidbit I picked up from SQL Saturday #40 (will now repeat batch 254 times!)
SET IDENTITY_INSERT dbo.TinyTally OFF;
GO

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Posted Wednesday, August 18, 2010 3:09 AM

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Sweet!

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Posted Wednesday, August 18, 2010 10:48 AM

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Do you understand the difference between the two Keith? Why yours was the harder way?

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Posted Wednesday, August 18, 2010 11:07 AM

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Yup, I actually tried out the default values script and it works awesome. No settings, just sraight insert statements.
Thanks for the input. Hopefully someone else gained additional understanding as well.
Later,

Keith Wiggans

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Posted Wednesday, August 18, 2010 2:58 PM

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Not exactly what I meant, although that is handy.

The fact that your column is an identity column is also what does the trick. The default_values won't help you if that's not the case, especially if the column doesn't have a default specified.

Since your column IS an identity column, you were having to say SET IDENTITY_INSERT ON before your script, and SET IDENTITY_INSERT OFF after you were done. This basically disables the automatic incrementation of the column value (if you didn't specify the IDENTITY_INSERT setting, it would have thrown an error), but in your case, this is what you want.

Therefore, skipping the SET IDENTITY_INSERT ON and just inserting 254 times gave you the values in that column without having to do the extra work.

Hope that helps explain a little better.

Jon

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