Question

I have a temp table with in a SP.

CREATE TABLE #bclist (
            bcastid INT
            ,userid INT
            ,etype INT
            ,articles0 BIGINT
            ,seq INT identity(1, 1)
            )

I also have a variable @nextseq
What I want is somthingh like below

CREATE TABLE #bclist (
            bcastid INT
            ,userid INT
            ,etype INT
            ,articles0 BIGINT
            ,seq INT identity(@nextseq, 1)
            )

But SQl server doesn’t permit this .Any solution ?

Answer 1

You can use

DBCC CHECKIDENT (#bclist, RESEED, @nextseq)

But it will not work if your SP is not running from dbowner.
Another thingh you can do is to reseed the table.

if @nextseq > 1 
        begin
                 TRUNCATE table #bclist
            SET IDENTITY_INSERT #bclist ON  
            INSERT INTO #bclist (seq) 
            VALUES (@nextseq-1 )  
            SET IDENTITY_INSERT #bclist OFF  
            DELETE FROM #bclist 
         End

Don’t forget the if condition otherwise in you seq coulmn you will get values from 2 instead of 1.