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cybersurfer
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 Posted - 2007-03-19 : 10:28:21
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| Hi, Is it possible to change the format of the identity column? i.e. I have and integer value that will be the ID for the records to follow in the database. Instead of the values being 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 etc I want them still to be in sequence but I want the format to be 001,002,003,004,005,006,007,008,009 etc.Is it possible to do that in SQL when you're creating the table? |
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nr
SQLTeam MVY
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Posted - 2007-03-19 : 10:36:25
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| Identities have to be numeric.It is trivial to reformat when you retrieve the data and that is the best place to do it (with a view or computed column if you wish).==========================================Cursors are useful if you don't know sql.DTS can be used in a similar way.Beer is not cold and it isn't fizzy. |
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Changing Identity column format