Removing Identity Property

Folks,
I am trying to alter my database thru SQL Scripts. I have a few tables where
I have columns having Identity Property. I now want to modify these columns
having no Identity Property. But I can't find SQL Statement that can do
this.
Can some one help?
Regards
Shailaindra Sharma
You cannot remove this property... you must add another column, move the id
info to the new column, drop the old column, and rename the new column...
Or do the same thing at the table level... However,
If you go into SEM, select the table , right click and go into design, you
can simply select the column and uncheck Identity at the bottom... SEM will
generate a script to do this work for you - if there are lots of rows it may
take a while.
Wayne Snyder MCDBA, SQL Server MVP
Mariner, Charlotte, NC
(Please respond only to the newsgroup.)
I support the Professional Association for SQL Server ( PASS) and it's
community of SQL Professionals.
"Shailaindra Sharma" <shailaindra@.abosoftware.com> wrote in message
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> Folks,
> I am trying to alter my database thru SQL Scripts. I have a few tables
where
> I have columns having Identity Property. I now want to modify these
columns
> having no Identity Property. But I can't find SQL Statement that can do
> this.
> Can some one help?
> Regards
> Shailaindra Sharma
>
|||Why can't we do things like that which we can easily do in access. How hard
can it be for ms to add these things which will make life so easy.
Regards
"Wayne Snyder" <wayne.nospam.snyder@.mariner-usa.com> wrote in message
news:ewlf9KqZFHA.3048@.TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> You cannot remove this property... you must add another column, move the
> id
> info to the new column, drop the old column, and rename the new column...
> Or do the same thing at the table level... However,
> If you go into SEM, select the table , right click and go into design, you
> can simply select the column and uncheck Identity at the bottom... SEM
> will
> generate a script to do this work for you - if there are lots of rows it
> may
> take a while.
> --
> Wayne Snyder MCDBA, SQL Server MVP
> Mariner, Charlotte, NC
> (Please respond only to the newsgroup.)
> I support the Professional Association for SQL Server ( PASS) and it's
> community of SQL Professionals.
> "Shailaindra Sharma" <shailaindra@.abosoftware.com> wrote in message
> news:eIHMP%23pZFHA.3840@.tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> where
> columns
>
|||Consider proposing this:
sqlwish@.microsoft.com
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
http://www.solidqualitylearning.com/
"John" <John@.nospam.infovis.co.uk> wrote in message news:%23iv4mYrZFHA.2664@.TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Why can't we do things like that which we can easily do in access. How hard
> can it be for ms to add these things which will make life so easy.
> Regards
>
|||You mean no one has found it to be a problem as yet?
Regards
"Tibor Karaszi" <tibor_please.no.email_karaszi@.hotmail.nomail.com> wrote in
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> Consider proposing this:
> sqlwish@.microsoft.com
>
> --
> Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
> http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
> http://www.solidqualitylearning.com/
>
> "John" <John@.nospam.infovis.co.uk> wrote in message
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