Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Error in Identity Column

For some reason my primary key, identity column skipped a couple of numbers. It went from row 734 to 736, 737, 739

Any ideas why this would happen?

thanks

hi

735 & 738 must've been created but deleted somehow.

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No, it was not deleted

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Rick0194:

No, it was not deleted

Yes they were, that's the only way it could have been skipped. Now, it may be that they get inserted as part of a transaction and something goes wrong and rolls it back -- the identity colum's value will appear to skip the next time a good insert occurs (I just confirmed that on sql 2000)

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