SQL Server Reset Identity Increment for all tables

Question

Basically I need to reset Identity Increment for all tables to its original. Here I tried some code, but it fails.

http://pastebin.com/KSyvtK5b

Actual code from

Answer 1

To reseed ONLY tables with an identity column you can use the next script. It also makes use of sp_MSforeachtable but taking into account the correct tables.

EXEC sp_MSforeachtable '
IF (SELECT COUNT(1) 
    FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES 
    WHERE TABLE_TYPE = ''BASE TABLE'' 
    AND ''[''+ TABLE_SCHEMA + ''].['' + TABLE_NAME + '']'' = ''?'' 
    AND OBJECTPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID(TABLE_NAME), ''TableHasIdentity'') = 1) > 0 
BEGIN
    DBCC CHECKIDENT (''?'', RESEED, 1)
END'

Answer 2

Use the below code,

CREATE TABLE #tmptable
(
    [seednvalue] int not null,
    [tablename] [nvarchar] (100) NULL
) 


declare @seedvalue AS INT
DECLARE @tablename AS VARCHAR(100)

Declare #tablesIdentityCursor CURSOR
    for 
    SELECT 
    IDENT_CURRENT(TABLE_NAME)+1 AS Current_Identity,
    TABLE_NAME
    FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
    WHERE OBJECTPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID(TABLE_NAME), 'TableHasIdentity') = 1
    AND TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE'  --AND TABLE_NAME='test11'

delete from #tmptable
Open #tablesIdentityCursor
FETCH NEXT FROM #tablesIdentityCursor into @seedvalue, @tablename
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 BEGIN

    Insert into #tmptable Select @seedvalue , @tablename   
    DBCC CHECKIDENT (@tablename, reseed, @seedvalue) 
    FETCH NEXT FROM #tablesIdentityCursor into @seedvalue, @tablename
END
CLOSE #tablesIdentityCursor
DEALLOCATE #tablesIdentityCursor
SELECT * FROM #tmptable
DROP TABLE #tmptable

Answer 3

(I'm reposting my answer from this other SO page)

Perhaps the easiest way (as crazy as this sounds and as code-smelly as it looks) is to just run DBCC CHECKIDENT twice like this:

-- sets all the seeds to 1
exec sp_MSforeachtable @command1 = 'DBCC CHECKIDENT (''?'', RESEED, 1)'

-- run it again to get MSSQL to figure out the MAX/NEXT seed automatically
exec sp_MSforeachtable @command1 = 'DBCC CHECKIDENT (''?'')'

Done.

If you want, you can run it once more to see what all the seeds were set to:

-- run it again to display what the seeds are now set to
exec sp_MSforeachtable @command1 = 'DBCC CHECKIDENT (''?'')'

This is just a creative way to take advantage of the comment from the documentation:

If the current identity value for a table is less than the maximum identity value stored in the identity column, it is reset using the maximum value in the identity column.

Answer 4

Slight variation that handles Schemas a bit better...

SELECT 
    IDENT_SEED(TABLE_SCHEMA+'.'+TABLE_NAME) AS Seed,
    IDENT_INCR(TABLE_SCHEMA+'.'+TABLE_NAME) AS Increment,
    IDENT_CURRENT(TABLE_SCHEMA+'.'+TABLE_NAME) AS Current_Identity,
    TABLE_SCHEMA+'.'+TABLE_NAME,
    'DBCC CHECKIDENT('''+TABLE_SCHEMA+'.'+TABLE_NAME+''', RESEED, '+CAST(IDENT_SEED(TABLE_SCHEMA+'.'+TABLE_NAME) AS VARCHAR(10))+')'
FROM 
    INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
WHERE 
    OBJECTPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID(TABLE_SCHEMA+'.'+TABLE_NAME), 'TableHasIdentity') = 1
AND TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE'
ORDER BY TABLE_SCHEMA, TABLE_NAME   

Answer 5

Be careful when using this command if your table contains data all your new inserts will result duplicate error

exec sp_MSforeachtable @command1 = 'DBCC CHECKIDENT(''?'', RESEED,1)'

to solve the problem you need to run this after that

exec sp_MSforeachtable @command1 = 'DBCC CHECKIDENT(''?'', RESEED)'

this will reset the seed to the last column identity if the data exists

Answer 6

Slight tweak on marc_s answer.

exec sp_MSforeachtable @command1 = 'DBCC CHECKIDENT (''?'', RESEED)'

Those single-quotes around the ? character are important. That statement will cause SQL Server to automatically recalculate the next identity value for each table.