>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:
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>{"Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK_ApplicationNote'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'PreApplication.ApplicationNote'.\r\nThe statement has been terminated."}
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>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?
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>Thanks!

If you are trying to copy the database exactly, use SET IDENTITY_INSERT ON before each table that has an identity column and SET IDENTITY_INSERT OFF after each. Copy the table data for primary key tables first.