Reset Identity column in SQL Server

Question

I am making an SQL database that stores contacts. I want to be able to delete contacts, and the correct id for each contact is crucial for my software connecting to it. Lets

Answer 1

This would be much better solved using another method than renumbering the identity column each time a row is deleted.

Hard to say exactly what else you would do without knowing why your application has this need, but the fact that your application needs this functionality is probably indicative of a design problem somewhere.