>>>AFAIK RowGuid sets the default value for the field to be NewID()
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>>My problem here is not the default value. I have a pk that is a UID. The ROWGUID property of the key is set to YES. I can change it manually to NO but I want to do it in TSQL.
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>>I have found that if I drop the PK entirely so that neither the key or the index or the column flag are showing anymore I still cannot create a new PK on that column with SMO as it still sees it as a rowguid.
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>>I thought blowing away the key would do it, since that was where the rowguid property was found, but it seems there is something else going on. I looked for a table property to reset but saw nothing there either.
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>Would you please post a script for the table? I asked my friends to help with this question.
Thanks but I realized I was forgetting the obvious (ie. BOL alter table docs )'
ALTER tablename ALTER column DROP ROWGUIDCOL
When I get all done with this I'll post some scripts others may find useful. i have a lot of VFP databases that use GUID keys and in moving them to .NET apps I'm going to be going with identity ints.
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