Steven Willis (6/26/2013)
Here's the article that I saw lately. I've only skimmed through it but it looks to do the sort of ordering we've been talking about. Looks interesting.
That is interesting. I don't think however it does quite what the OP is trying to do. You will notice in the example code here:
ADD CONSTRAINT Const_Sample_Seq
DEFAULT FORMAT((NEXT VALUE FOR dbo.Sample_Seq),'CUS0000#') FOR [ID];
This is simply converting the numeric sequence to a varchar and appending the hardcoded "CUS0000" in front of the number. The character portion of this is static, and it is the hard part of using an "incrementing" alphanumeric. I don't see anywhere in this example of doing things like A1, A23, B4, etc.
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