Hi Eric,

Thanks for the info. I can't use Truncate table on a table referenced by a foreign key constraint.

I'll have to figure out a way to delete the constraints - before truncating the tables - and then rebuild them once all appropriate tables have been truncated.

Al

>instead of deleting rows, you can truncate them (which delete ALL rows and reset identity columns).
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>truncate table YourTableName
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>>Hi,
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>>We will soon be ready to move a VB-SQL 2000 app from testing to production. We will be deleting records from most of the tables (excluding some settings tables) accumulated during testing. Creating a SQL script to do this is simple enough.
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>>My question is this: I would like to reset the identity seed for these tables after deleting the records. How should I do this? Can it be done as part of my script?
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>>Thanks in advance.
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>>Al