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Monday, October 8, 2012

Creating existing column identity in existing table


Hi friends ,

Suppose i have one table " shipmentpincode " , which have following columns :-





 I want to make Id column of this table identity . Then i have to fulfill following steps : -


  • First , create a temp column in table 
Alter Table shipmentpincode Add Id_new int Identity(1, 1) not null primary key 
Go

  • Second, drop existing column 
Alter Table shipmentpincode Drop Column Id
Go

  • Rename new column to old column name 

  Exec sp_rename 'shipmentpincode.Id_new', 'Id', 'Column'