Getting the next ID without inserting a row

Question

Is it possible in SQL (SQL Server) to retrieve the next ID (integer) from an identity column in a table before, and without actually, inserting a row? This is not necessarily th

Answer 1

You can pretty easily determine that the last value used is:

SELECT
    last_value
FROM 
    sys.identity_columns
WHERE
    object_id = OBJECT_ID('yourtablename')

Usually, the next ID will be last_value + 1 - but there's no guarantee for that.

Marc