DB: To use identity column or not?

DB: To use identity column or not?



1.sql server - Is it better to use an uniqueidentifier(GUID ...

Description:For SQL server is it better to use an uniqueidentifier(GUID)
or a bigint for an identity column?



2.Identity columns - IBM

Description:7 An identity column provides a way for DB2 (R) Universal
Database (DB2 UDB) to 7 automatically generate a unique numeric value for
each row in a table.



3.SQL SERVER – Add or Remove Identity Property on Column ...

Description:03-05-2009 · Hello All, Okay sorry for not giving complete
solution. Example above shows the first half, solution to this would be to
do following. Step1: Add a new ...



4.Bad habits to kick : putting an IDENTITY column on every table

Description:Now tell me, what business purpose does the IDENTITY column on
the OrderDetails table satisfy? When are you ever going to need to
reference rows in this table by the ...



5.Defining an Identity Column - Apache Software Foundation

Description:An identity column is a column that stores numbers that
increment by one with each insertion. Identity columns are sometimes
called autoincrement columns.



6.SQL SERVER – Reseed Identity of Table – Table Missing ...

Description:01-04-2009 · Some time ago I was helping one of my Junior
Developers who presented me with an interesting situation. He had a table
with Identity Column. Because of ...



7.Change Not For Replication Value for SQL Server Identity ...

Description:CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Table_1]([ProductID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1)
NOT FOR REPLICATION NOT NULL, [ProductName] [varchar](50) COLLATE
SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL,



8.Defining an identity column on a new table

Description:An identity column provides a way for DB2 to automatically
generate a unique numeric value for each row that is added to the table.
When creating a table where you ...



9.How to RESET identity columns in SQL Server - CodeProject

Description:07-10-2011 · Resetting an identity column in SQL Server;
Author: Tejas Vaishnav; Updated: 7 Oct 2011; Section: Database; Chapter:
Database; Updated: 7 Oct 2011



10.Mimicking SQL Server identity column in Oracle - CodeProject

Description:09-01-2012 · This article describes how to use a sequence to
mimic the SQL Server identity column in Oracle.; Author: Mika Wendelius;
Updated: 9 Jan 2012; Section ...