Sometimes, as when testing a table in a Microsoft SQL Server database, you need to reset an identity column to its initial seed value, typically one. During testing, you populate the table with data, ...

Both have identical column structures. What I need to do is run an INSERT against Table1 to insert all the data from that table that meets certain requirements in my WHERE clause into Table2. Basic ...

Arthur Fuller explores the value of identity columns and the usefulness of their arbitrary values and discusses ways to use SQL Server 2000’s IDENTITY_INSERT setting. Despite your numerous ...

Is there any similar function for MySql (v4.1)? It's for an orders table, and the client would like to have their order numbers start at 1000 instead of 1. I know that I could just turn off ...