>>>I see. I think the second method (without GROUP BY, of course) is a correct method. The first one may return wrong value if that row was deleted.
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>>I see. So the IDENT_CURRENT() does not change if the last row is deleted. I didn't know that. Thank you.
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>Yes, I verifed it just in case
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>create table #temp (testID int identity (1,1), test varchar(10))
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>insert into #temp (test) values ('T1'),('T2'),('T3')
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>select IDENT_CURRENT('#temp')
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>delete from #temp where testID = 3
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>select IDENT_CURRENT('#temp')Thank you very much.
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