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Message Posted: Tue, 25 May 2004 @ 14:26:40 GMT


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Subj:		Re: Identity Columns

From:		GORRELLA, SRINI

Joe,

INDENTITY column does not guarantee a monotonically increasing sequence but it does guarantee a unique key to identify the row . If you want to ensure the values shld be in increasing order , you need to get rid from IDENTITY column and make it as a INTEGER NOT NULL , and populate that with either CSUM or RANK function , make sure while using the RANK, how unique the data is going to be

The huge gap is due to IDCOL batch size

Thanks,

Srini