Setting Identity to on or off in SQL server

Question

I want to set Is Identity property of a column to off and after inserting an explicit value setting it to on again.I\'ve written this query :

SET IDENTITY_INSERT         


        

Answer 1

To insert explicit values into the identity column , do the following :

SET IDENTITY_INSERT Tbl_Cartoons  ON
GO

-- code to insert explicit ID values

SET IDENTITY_INSERT Tbl_Cartoons  OFF
GO