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Posted - 2001-01-05 : 15:08:46
Srinivas writes "Hi All,

While using the Identity caluse for Autonumbering a column, can someone clarify the following issues:

(a)What happens when some of the rows are deleted? Does it reuse the previous ID's?

(b)What happens for a heavyly transactional database (of course data being purged) when the maximum limit has been reached? Does it start back from zero?

Thanks for any info,

Srinivas"
   

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