Question

I’m collecting metadata using the sys.* views, and according to the documentation, the sys.identity_columns view will return the seed and increment values like so.

CREATE TABLE ident_test (   test_id int IDENTITY(1000,10),   other int )  SELECT name, seed_value, increment_value   FROM sys.identity_columns  WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID( 'ident_test' ) 

However, the above query just returns one column. Is it just me?

(Note: I’ve had to change this question somewhat from its earlier version.)

Answer 1

Shouldn’t you reverse the from and join, like this:

SELECT c.name, i.seed_value, i.increment_value from sys.identity_columns i join sys.columns c     ON i.object_id = c.object_id    AND i.column_id = c.column_id