Sorry to bother you guys with what I though would be an easy task. I
have a table in my database were I would like one of the rows to
increment a number for each row. I want the first row to start at 1000
and keep on incrementing by 1 'till the end of the rows (about 2.7
million rows). I though this would be a piece of cake, but I just can't
seem to find anything like it on the internet...weir d.
Anyways, I'm just a rookie in sql, any help would be appreciated
Thanks
JMT
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look in the BOL under the 'identity'. Its a column property....
MC
<bi****@hotmail .com> wrote in message
news:11******** *************@g 47g2000cwa.goog legroups.com... Sorry to bother you guys with what I though would be an easy task. I
have a table in my database were I would like one of the rows to
increment a number for each row. I want the first row to start at 1000
and keep on incrementing by 1 'till the end of the rows (about 2.7
million rows). I though this would be a piece of cake, but I just can't
seem to find anything like it on the internet...weir d.
Anyways, I'm just a rookie in sql, any help would be appreciated
Thanks
JMT
Sorry to sound so dumb, but what is the BOL, and what steps do I have
to take to set that property column ??
I found out that BOL is Books Online and found the Identity poperty.
But running this in my sql query gives me error:
*************** *********
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'IDENTITY'.
Alter TABLE [dbo].[Microsoft]
Alter Column [Barcode] [int] IDENTITY (1000, 1) NOT NULL
*************** *********
Microsoft is my table name and Barcode is my column name.
What am I doing wrong ??
Thanks for the reply!!
JMT
BOL is Books Online, the MSSQL documentation. It's installed with MSSQL
or the client tools (but not MSDE), but you should grab the latest
version from the Microsoft download site - there have been a couple of
updates since the product shipped.
You can add a column with ALTER TABLE:
alter table dbo.MyTable add NewCol int not null identity(1000,1 )
You can't control which row gets which identity value, so adding a
column like this is probably only useful as an artificial key.
Simon
Thanks alot Simon,
It worked fine for what I need. Just needed to generate different
numbers for every row in my table of 2.7 million rows. It does the job
wonderfully !!
Later and thanks again
JMT
<bi****@hotmail .com> wrote in message
news:11******** *************@g 47g2000cwa.goog legroups.com... Sorry to bother you guys with what I though would be an easy task. I
have a table in my database were I would like one of the rows to
increment a number for each row. I want the first row to start at 1000
and keep on incrementing by 1 'till the end of the rows (about 2.7
million rows). I though this would be a piece of cake, but I just can't
seem to find anything like it on the internet...weir d.
Anyways, I'm just a rookie in sql, any help would be appreciated
Thanks
First thing to understand.
There is no concept of "first row" or "last row" in a table. It's an
unordered set.
The only way to specify an order when doing a query is with an order by in
the query.
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