Question

I have a table called ComplaintCodes which contains about 15 rows and 2 columns: ComplaintCodeId and ComplaintCodeText.

I want to insert a new row into that table but have its ID set to 1 which will also add 1 to all of the ID’s that exist already. Is this possible?

EDIT

Using SQL Server and ComplaintCodeId is an identity / PK column

Answer 1

update <table> set ComplaintCodeId =ComplaintCodeId +1

insert into <table>
select 1,'other column'

Edit:

If its a PK+Identity column, then its a very bad idea to do like this. You cannot update an identity column..

Instead of updating you could do something like this:

select row_number() over (order by ComplaintCodeId desc) as row_num,
       ComplaintCodeId 
from table

and use row_num instead of ComplaintCodeId