Retreiving Identity attributes
I need to retreive a field's Identity attributes (Identity, Seed and Increment). All this for SQL 7 / 2000 databases and using ADO, ADOX or pure SQL.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
ASKER
This is working great but ... how can I know which field has the identity property set to Yes?
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Great!
I joined all that togheter. Is is the final result:
SELECT SO.Name AS TableName, SC.Name AS FieldName,
Ident_Seed(Info.Table_Name
Ident_Incr(Info.Table_Name
Ident_Current(Info.Table_N
FROM SysObjects AS SO
INNER JOIN SysColumns AS SC
ON SO.Id = SC.Id
INNER JOIN information_schema.Tables AS Info
ON Info.Table_Name = SO.Name
WHERE SO.Name = 'Analyst'
AND ColumnProperty(OBJECT_ID('
I joined all that togheter. Is is the final result:
SELECT SO.Name AS TableName, SC.Name AS FieldName,
Ident_Seed(Info.Table_Name
Ident_Incr(Info.Table_Name
Ident_Current(Info.Table_N
FROM SysObjects AS SO
INNER JOIN SysColumns AS SC
ON SO.Id = SC.Id
INNER JOIN information_schema.Tables AS Info
ON Info.Table_Name = SO.Name
WHERE SO.Name = 'Analyst'
AND ColumnProperty(OBJECT_ID('
SELECT TABLE_NAME, IDENT_INCR(TABLE_NAME) AS IDENT_INCR, IDENT_SEED(TABLE_NAME) as IDENT_SEED
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
WHERE TABLE_NAME ='employees'
replace with your table name.