April 12, 2020 at 4:00 pm
Hi everyone,
I have a giant table 'A' with an identity key and also a foreign key that references the identity key in the same table. My goal is load some data in this table from some other table 'B' for some data analysis. Approach i took was remove the identity key form tbale, truncate the table and load the data in table A from table B. After the data is loaded, I tried to set up the identity key for the original column but sql won't let me do that. Is there a way to load the data to table 'B' and also preserve the value of identitykey?
Thanks,
Rohit
April 12, 2020 at 4:06 pm
If I understand what you are asking, SET IDENTITY_INSERT may be what you are looking for.
April 12, 2020 at 9:13 pm
let me explain my issue again:
April 13, 2020 at 2:48 pm
Please explain your thinking behind removing and adding the IDENTITY column. Why not leave the IDENTITY column there during data load?
The PK is a separate matter, and there may be value in dropping that before the load. Thorough testing will provide the answer to that.
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