Primary Key question

[LonnieT]

Hello All,

Here is an easy one, not for me though, that I hope you can answer.

I have a table with a integer primary-key and the way that it is working now, it starts off at 1 and adds 1 each time a new entry is added to the table. The standard method I think.

What I need to do is to empty the table and have the primary-key start off a say 1000 or 5000.

How can I set a default value for the Primary-Key to start out at?

Thanks,
Lonnie

[rmiao]

If it's identity column, you can reseed it with 'dbcc checkident'.

[LonnieT]

Hello,

I looked at 'DBCC CHECKIDENT ' and it looks like it could be part of the solution.

The remaining part would be for me to:

1.) Not loose the existing data in the table.

2.) renumber the existing primary-key values starting from some initial RESEED value.

How about this?

Thanks,
Lonnie

[rmiao]

Copy the table to testing server and do the test on it.