Question

I am making a Inventory Software . In that i need to make a auto generated item code so that the users can use that code to pick that item. I would like to know how to make such colum and whats the best way to do it.

i need to start the itemcode from “1000”

For example i have the following columns in my table

ItemID int
ItemCode 
ItemName 

Answer 1

If the GUID or the Autoincrement column is not enough for your business you have to create a Function to auto generate your custom code

have a look at the below:

http://www.sqlteam.com/article/custom-auto-generated-sequences-with-sql-server