You can use DBCC CHECKIDENT() to reset the next identity to a new value. Why do you want to do this after deleting a row?

-Mike

>I'm having trouble figuring out how to reset an identity field's sequential count in a table, after I manually delete one or more records.
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>As it is, when I delete the last record in a table, the next record I add adopts the next higher number, as though I hadn't deleted it at all.
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>I tried changing the seed, but that didn't help, so I set it back to 1.
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>TIA,
>Jeff