Question

i would like to alter a stored procedure so i will not suplly the identity column name

INSERT INTO tablName ..... WHERE IDENTITY_Column = 10

can i tell sql server managment studio to just refer to the IDENTITY column so it will find
it by its type which is (at least in my tables a default) autoincremet PK ID type

Answer 1

this is related to a table copy trick i was trying to pull via stored procedure.

USE [YourDataBaseName]
GO
/****** Object:  StoredProcedure [dbo].[Utils_TableRowCopy]    Script Date: 10/03/2012 18:26:58 ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[Utils_TableRowCopy](
    @TableName VARCHAR(50) ,
    @RowNumberToCopy INT
)



AS
BEGIN


declare @RowIdentity sysname =
(
 SELECT name FROM sys.identity_columns WHERE object_id = object_id(@TableName)
)

    DECLARE @columns VARCHAR(5000), @query VARCHAR(8000);
    SET @query = '' ;

    SELECT @columns =
        CASE
            WHEN @columns IS NULL THEN column_name
            ELSE @columns + ',' + column_name
        END
    FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
    WHERE (
        TABLE_NAME = LTRIM(RTRIM(@TableName))
        AND
        column_name <> LTRIM(RTRIM(@RowIdentity))
    );

    SET @query = 'INSERT INTO ' + @TableName + ' (' + @columns + ') SELECT ' + @columns + ' FROM ' + @TableName + ' WHERE ' + @RowIdentity + ' = ' + CAST(@RowNumberToCopy AS VARCHAR);

    --SELECT SCOPE_IDENTITY();
    declare  @query2 VARCHAR(100) =  ' Select Top 1 * FROM '+ @TableName +' Order BY ' + @RowIdentity + ' desc' ;
    EXEC (@query);
    EXEC (@query2);
END