select n.number from numbers as n left join your_table as t on n.number=t.id_col
where t.id_col is null

Date to be compared retrieve from another table..

I mean Start Date taken from tb1, End Date taken from tb2, values inserted to tb2

EXEC sp_MSForEachTable ‘ALTER TABLE ? NOCHECK CONSTRAINT ALL’
– USE DELETE on Tables with foreign keys and Truncate on others
EXEC sp_MSForEachTable ‘declare @schema varchar(255);
SET @schema = PARSENAME(“?”,2) IF @schema ”dbo”
BEGIN
IF OBJECTPROPERTY(object_id(”?”), ”TableHasForeignRef”) = 1
BEGIN
DELETE FROM ?
IF OBJECTPROPERTY(object_id(”?”), ”TableHasIdentity”) = 1
DBCC CHECKIDENT (”?”, RESEED,0) WITH NO_INFOMSGS
END
else
BEGIN
TRUNCATE TABLE ?
IF OBJECTPROPERTY(object_id(”?”), ”TableHasIdentity”) = 1
DBCC CHECKIDENT (”?”, RESEED,1) WITH NO_INFOMSGS
END
END;
‘

EXEC sp_MSForEachTable ‘ALTER TABLE ? CHECK CONSTRAINT ALL’

Go into design mode of that table and select that field. You will get the field properties below. Go to “Identity Specification” option, set (Is Identity) as yes, set Identity Increment as 1, set Identity seed as 1.

After this execute the below command.

DBCC CHECKIDENT(‘Your Table Name’, RESEED, 0)

Thanks,
Yash Thakkar

BTW, thanks so much for this blog, it has saved me headaches time and time again.

This is a common problem if you are using an int as your identity column. A better approach would be to use GUID, this is a unique value that can be entered against each row. You can see what it looks like by writing ‘Select NewID()’ This will show you an example of a GUID. The data type is known as UniqueIdentifier in the SQL table.

Hope this helps.

set rowcount 100000
Delete from “table_name”
where CALL_START_UTC between ’2008-12-25 00:00:00′ AND ’2008-12-31 23:59:59′

while @@rowcount>0
Delete from “table_name”
where CALL_START_UTC between ’2008-12-25 00:00:00′ AND ’2008-12-31 23:59:59′

SET ROWCOUNT 0

your solution didnt work, i edited to:

set rowcount 10000
Delete from SMC_LONGDISTANCE_CDRS
where CALL_START_UTC between 12/25/2008 AND 01/30/2009

while @@rowcount>0
DELETE from SMC_LONGDISTANCE_CDRS
where CALL_START_UTC between 12/25/2008 AND 01/30/2009

and result was :
(0 row(s) affected)

set rowcount 10000
DELETE from “table_name”
(call_start between ’08/01/2010 12:00:00 AM’ AND ’09/30/2010 11:59:59 PM’)

while @@rowcount>0
DELETE from “table_name”
(call_start between ’08/01/2010 12:00:00 AM’ AND ’09/30/2010 11:59:59 PM’)

how can i bulk delete without sending records to transaction log? and doesnt wait so long.

is this script a right solution, because i dont want to lose the id key:

DELETE from “table_name”
(call_start between ’08/01/2010 12:00:00 AM’ AND ’09/30/2010 11:59:59 PM’)
DBCC CHECKIDENT(“table_name”, RESEED, 0)

I have an issue. I have hosted a web application with sql serve db in a central server in state capital and there are 10 other districts here. every client machine is accessing the apllication through the web. but if there is no connectivity they will enter the data into the local serve within the district and this data will be updated to the Central server whenever the connection establishes.

The problem is every table is having an identity auto increment column which is primary key and this key is referencing as foreign key in the transaction tables. so at the time of synchronisation the identity will get affected and the transaction data will get affected worse. How can I override this situation. Please help on this

I have a table which has an identity column in it. This table is added as an article to an existing Peer to peer replication. I tried reseeding the indentity column on this table to 10000 using the below command

DBCC CHECKIDENT ( ‘AutoProvision.ApprovalRequestInfo_New1′ , RESEED, 10000000)

No errors are reported when I run the above command , but if I go to verify the identity set in this table using the below command

DBCC CHECKIDENT ( ‘AutoProvision.ApprovalRequestInfo_New1′ )
go

I get the following output

Checking identity information: current identity value ‘NULL’, current column value ‘NULL’.
DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator.

I thought this was because the table was added as an article as part of the replication , so I added an additional new table in the DB, with no records ( virgin ) , and then tried to reseed the indentity column on this table to 1000,
I used the DBCC CHECKIDENT to check the indentity , but it still returned me

Checking identity information: current identity value ‘NULL’, current column value ‘NULL’.

Any idea , why the table is not being reseeded ?

Thanks