You then have one of two choices:
1. Turn the “Allow Duplicates” to Yes.
OR
2. Delete the column.

Then
3. Run the Bulk Import.
4. If you’ve selected 2 above, then decide whether you need an index column, and create a new one.

I’ve done 2 and it works. Do it especially if Access has created an index automatically for you – the content of such indices is usually unrelated to the data (any old unique values will do) so you can just build it in the end, as in 4.

and thank you, Pinal Dave!

SET IDENTITY_INSERT ON/ OFF

doesn’t resolved my problem.

The only way to solve the problem was to specify the column list, ie :
INSERT INTO tbl (idcol1,col2) VALUES ( value1,value2)

Cheers !

To demonstrate this first of all we have to create an Employee Table with some records inserted to it.Then we can delete some selected records from the Employee table to verify the output.

http://www.mindfiresolutions.com/How-to-get-the-Deleted-Identity-Numbers-in-SQL-Server-2005-799.php

insert into iRSA.CONFIGVAL
Select * from [RIC-NT88].acptImageRIght.iRSA.CONFIGVAL

SET IDENTITY_INSERT OFF

DID NOT WORK FOR ME,,,, THE ONLY THING THAT DID WAS THE FOLLOWING :

GO TO SQL SERVER MANGEMENT STUDIO.
RIGHT CLICK ON TABLE IN QUESTION

– GO TO DESIGN VIEW AND TOGGLE (IS IDENTITY) TO ‘NO’(UNDER IDENTITY SPECIFICATION)

RUN SQL STATEMENT, GO TO DESIGN VIEW AGAIN ,TOGGLE BACK

ANYONE KNOW WHY THE SET STATEMENT DID NOT WORK?

Thanks for all those valuable suggestions, it worked for me !!!

Stumped myself until I removed the order by at the end of my select statement. Then SQL assigns the identity number and I do NOT have to provide column list.

i had a problem with importing database , i have gone through your blog but i didn’t got a suitable solution , so plz go through this and help me in settings things right.

i am using sqlbulkcopy to import data from db2 to sql server 2005.

here my destination table in sql has a coloumn(some id coloumn) with identity specification

so when i import the data it defaultly takes the id and i am loosing the actual id’s (the id ‘s in db2 )

i tried running a sql command with (“set identity_insert tablename on “) before loading and again i reset it to “off” after loading (i.e; after writing to server with bulkcopy object) but for no use .

still i can’t get the original ids (from db2) — i am loosing the data .

i am in a bottle neck situation , so plz kindly suggest me a solution ASAP.

My code looks like:

CREATE TABLE Temp(
ID INT IDENTITY(1,1) )

in this case how can i go for insert statement?

– Create column list as you can’t insert with identity insert = on without specifying column names!
DECLARE @ColumnList varchar(1000)
SELECT @ColumnList = COALESCE(@ColumnList + ‘, ‘, ”) + COLUMN_NAME
FROM information_schema.columns WHERE table_name = ‘Menu’ ORDER BY ORDINAL_POSITION

–Menu
SELECT @sql =
‘SET IDENTITY_INSERT ‘ + @DestinationDB + ‘.dbo.Menu ON;’ +
‘INSERT INTO ‘ + @DestinationDB + ‘.dbo.Menu (‘ + @ColumnList + ‘) SELECT ‘ + @ColumnList + ‘ FROM PizzaHutTemp.dbo.Menu;’ +
‘SET IDENTITY_INSERT ‘ + @DestinationDB + ‘.dbo.Menu OFF;’
EXEC (@sql)
PRINT @sql

This stored Procedure inserts in table [user], copy to table [copyuser] and finnaly, to delete from [user].

CREATE PROCEDURE copyto
@id int

AS

SET IDENTITY_INSERT usersCopy off
insert into userscopy (first,last)values (‘first’,'last’)
SET IDENTITY_INSERT users on
insert users ([id],[first]) select [id],[first] from usersCopy where id=@id
delete from userscopy where id=@id

SET IDENTITY_INSERT ON

INSERT INTO (, , ) VALUES (, , )

SET IDENTITY_INSERT OFF

Regards,
Morrones

I have this table DataCategory:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[DataCategory](
[CategoryNo] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[CategoryType] [varchar](100) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP437_CI_AS NOT NULL,
[CategoryID] [varchar](100) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP437_CI_AS NULL,
[CategoryDescription] [varchar](100) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP437_CI_AS NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_DataCategory] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
[CategoryNo] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]

Then I add the column list and can use this query to insert data :

INSERT INTO DataCategory(CategoryNo, CategoryType,CategoryID,CategoryDescription) VALUES(@CategoryNo, ‘Alarm’, ‘EQ’, ‘Alarm for EQ1′)

I just add the column list , and I can use Stored Procedures to add identity columns:

I have DateCategory table:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[DataCategory](
[CategoryNo] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[CategoryType] [varchar](100) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP437_CI_AS NOT NULL,
[CategoryID] [varchar](100) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP437_CI_AS NULL,
[CategoryDescription] [varchar](100) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP437_CI_AS NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_DataCategory] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
[CategoryNo] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]

——————–
Then I can insert identity rows buy add in the column list:

INSERT INTO DataCategory(CategoryNo, CategoryType,CategoryID,CategoryDescription) VALUES(@CategoryNo, ‘Alarm ‘, EQ1, ‘Alarm for EQ1′)

Many thanks !!!

Camillo