Identity increment is jumping in SQL Server database

Question

In one of my tables Fee in column \"ReceiptNo\" in SQL Server 2012 database identity increment suddenly started jumping to 100s instead of 1 depending on the fo

Answer 1

I know my answer might be late to the party. But i have solved in another way by adding a start up stored procedure in SQL Server 2012.

Create a following stored procedure in master DB.

USE [master]
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[ResetTableNameIdentityAfterRestart]
AS
BEGIN

begin TRAN
    declare @id int = 0
    SELECT @id =  MAX(id) FROM [DatabaseName].dbo.[TableName]
    --print @id
    DBCC CHECKIDENT ('[DatabaseName].dbo.[TableName]', reseed, @id)
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END

Then add it in to Start up by using following syntax.

EXEC sp_procoption 'ResetOrderIdentityAfterRestart', 'startup', 'on';

This is a good idea if you have few tables. but if you have to do for many tables, this method still works but not a good idea.