Checking the Identity

• Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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  February 6, 2019 at 8:47 pm

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  Comments posted to this topic are about the item Checking the Identity

• Stewart "Arturius" Campbell

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  February 6, 2019 at 9:33 pm

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  Nice, easy question today, thanks Steve

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• HappyGeek

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  February 7, 2019 at 1:31 am

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  Stewart "Arturius" Campbell - Wednesday, February 6, 2019 9:33 PM

  Nice, easy question today, thanks Steve

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• Shayn Thomas

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  February 7, 2019 at 6:06 am

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  nice reminder

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• Sean Lange

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  February 7, 2019 at 7:47 am

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  Good question. Does anybody have a table where the identity increment isn't 1? I know it can be done and I have on test boxes but never for a real table. Curious what real world situations might be out there where something other than 1 actually is needed.

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  February 7, 2019 at 9:13 am

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  The only use I've seen is two servers that would move data to each other and each used 2, with one generating odd numbers and one even. It was a weird way of homegrown managing merge replication