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From: "Randev, Rajesh, OPLS" <rrandev at att dot com>
Subject: RE: Identity Burn Set Factor
Date: Oct 8 1997 5:07PM
As suggested by Michael Peppler to rename the original tables
and select into to create fresh, please be noted that when u use
'select into' - the rules & defaults attached to the columns will not
be copied..
Thanks
Rajesh Randev.
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>From: Michael Peppler[SMTP:mpeppler@mbay.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 1997 11:02 AM
>To: SYBPERL-L@trln.lib.unc.edu
>Subject: Re: Identity Burn Set Factor
>
>Pauline Biron wrote:
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> A sybase, not sybperl question. I'd appreciate any insight.
>>
>> Our Sybase machine crashed last week, and the identity fields within
>> the database tables reset to 5trillion. We have reset the burn set
>> factor to 20 (rather than the default 5000). I would like to restore
>> the original seed value of the identity column. The 5 trillion id is
>> too much for me to deal with. Is there a way to reset the identity
>> fields without recreating the table and bcping the info back into it?
>> Or is this the best/only way?
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>Assuming you have enough space, how about renaming the original table,
>and then using select into to recreate the original table (with
>identity_insert on, of course).
>
>Michael
>--
>Michael Peppler -||- Data Migrations Inc.
>mpeppler@datamig.com -||- http://www.mbay.net/~mpeppler
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