Question

I’m working on a database and what I want to do is create a table with an ID (auto increment) and another column: “Number” (I realize it sounds useless but bear with me here please), and I need to fill this “Number” column with values from 1 to 180, each time adding 1 to the previous.

What would be a clever “automatic” way of doing that?

Answer 1

Create a table with the columns you want (ID,Number) and set ID to auto increment. Once your done, use a while to load up to 180.

Here is the CREATE TABLE

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[<YOUR TABLE>](
    [ID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
    [Number] [int] NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]

Here is the INSERT

INSERT INTO <YOUR TABLE> (Number) VALUES (1);

WHILE SCOPE_IDENTITY() < 180
BEGIN
    INSERT INTO <YOUR TABLE> (Number) VALUES (SCOPE_IDENTITY()+1);
END