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30/11/2010 14:01:50
Mike Cole
Yellow Lab Technologies
Stanley, Iowa, United States
 
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Forum:
Microsoft SQL Server
Category:
Scripting
Environment versions
SQL Server:
SQL Server 2005
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Thread ID:
01491153
Message ID:
01491155
Views:
55
Yeah, but that complains when I have FK constraints set.

>TRUNCATE TABLE will reset identity.
>
>>I use Red Gate SQL Data Compare to duplicate my production data to a testing database. Basically it's a DELETE followed by a bunch of INSERTs. However, it seems to not reset the identity PK. I keep getting this error:
>>
>>{"Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK_ApplicationNote'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'PreApplication.ApplicationNote'.\r\nThe statement has been terminated."}
>>
>>I know I can go in and run a script to reset the identity, but I have to do that on every table every time I do this. Does anybody know of a way to avoid this? Or a global way to reset all identity columns?
>>
>>Thanks!
Very fitting: http://xkcd.com/386/
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