How Do I Trace Missing Id Numbers In A Table

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I currently have an application which runs on a server.

The server ran a windows update and when i looked at one of my tables there is a jump in the id from 52182 to 53182.

I have looked at the trace logs and there is nothing showing that records were added or deleted.

is there a way for me to trace those 1000 records or could there be a reason for why those 1000 ids have been skipped?

Posted 26-Jan-14 22:36pm

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phil.o · Answer 1 · 2014-01-26T23:06:00

Obviously there has been some INSERT attempt of 1000 lines in the table that did not succeed. In this case, the identity field is still increased.

My advise is: you should not bother about these 1000 ids that were not affected and will not be. This could be a problem if you are running out of available ids, which is not the case here apparently.
I do work with databases/identity fields on a daily basis; I never care about having contiguous identity values, IMHO this has to be handled by the database system, not the developpers nor the users.