We have a 5GB table (nearly 500 million rows) and we want to remove the identity property on one of the column, but when we try to do this through SSMS – it times out.
Can this be done through T-SQL?
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We have a 5GB table (nearly 500 million rows) and we want to remove the identity property on one of the column, but when we try to do this through SSMS – it times out.
Can this be done through T-SQL?
You cannot remove an
IDENTITYspecification once set.To remove the entire column:
Information about ALTER TABLE here
If you need to keep the data, but remove the
IDENTITYcolumn, you will need to:IDENTITYcolumn to the new columnIDENTITYcolumn.