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IDENTITY Property
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The IDENTITY Column Property
There are a number of ways to generate key values in SQL Server tables including the IDENTITY column property, the NEWID() function and more recently, SEQUENCES. The IDENTITY column property is the earliest of these methods. It was introduced very early in the history of SQL Server and it is arguably the simplest approach. Though old, IDENTITY is still maintained in modern versions of SQL Server and is still relevant for simple use cases.
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Change Not For Replication Value for SQL Server Identity Columns
In this tip we look at how to change the SQL Server setting for a tables identity column to not for replication for existing tables.
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