Hi Borislav.
Say I do that, and my Identity filed ends up as follows (No duplicates but not necessarily in sequence)
100
303
20000
300

What will Sql assign as the next identity ?
Is it clever enough to look at the 'Highest' entry and just add 1
if it does this, I am home and dry and dont need to do anything.
if however, it say creates 301 (1 greater than the last row) at some point there is going to be a clash with the exisitng 303

Regards,
Gerard


>>>I have a VFP program to copy over VFP tables into exisitng SQL Server Table
>>>The SQL SErver table has an Identity with an Identity Seed
>>>How do I : Set Identity_Insert off,and after I have imported the data, set Identity_Insert on and also set the Identity Seed to a new number
>>>
>>>I think I can set the Identity Insert by putting following into a string:
>>>SET IDENTITY_INSERT MYTABLE OFF
>>>IMport the VFP data
>>>SET IDENTITY_INSERT MYTABLE ON
>>>
>>>Not so sure how to set the seed though ?
>>>
>>>Tia
>>>Gerard
>
>
>As I said, there is no need to do anything with the seed.
>Just do:
>

>SET IDENTITY_INSERT YoruTable OFF
>--- Do the Insert and make sure you didn't insert duplicated values
>SET IDENTITY_INSERT YoruTable ON
>

>That is all.
>SQL Server will handle the re-seed of the column.