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Re: problem using identity column as primary key

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problem using identity column as primary key

Nikhil Patel24 Feb 2004 15:55
Hi,
   I am thinking of creating an identity column to use it as primary key in
my table. But the problem is that once I delete some records, the SQL Server
would not reuse the IDs of the deleted records. So there will be holes in
the sequence. I know many people use Identity columns to generate unique id.
How do they deal with the holes in the identity columns? Do I need to worry
about the size of the identity column or whether or not the column would run
out of IDs or any other problem?

thanks...
-Nikhil

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