How to make the Primary key and identity specification value back to 1?

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my in my Table productId value is 314 and i want that back to 1?
how to do that?

Posted 25-Feb-14 23:48pm

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2014-02-25T23:53:00

It's really, really not recommended, but... if you empty the table first (otherwise you will get problems when it "catches up"):

SQL

DBCC CHECKIDENT('MyTable', RESEED, 1)

MSDN: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms176057.aspx[^]

[edit]Oops! Set it to zero, not one - OriginalGriff[/edit]

Posted 25-Feb-14 23:53pm

Updated 25-Feb-14 23:54pm

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Animesh Datta · Answer 2 · 2014-02-25T23:59:00

Hello ,
Use Truncate command to delete and reinitialize identity specification .

truncate table Customers

thanks
animesh

Posted 25-Feb-14 23:59pm

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Member 10533469 28-Feb-14 20:15pm

Can you give me an example for that?