Showing posts with label systemview. Show all posts
Showing posts with label systemview. Show all posts

Monday, March 19, 2012

Changes in SQL2005 syscolumns table

It seems MS changed the way syscolumns table works. It appears this is no longer a table, but probably a systemview. Problem is, it looks like the autoval column is no longer working. I was using this to determine whether a column was an auto incrementing identity field. How should I go about determining a column's auto increment values?

Thanx,Since there is only one autoincrement column per table, you can use SELECT IDENT_CURRENT('table_name') wrote in message news:8bf47d13-a87f-4304-b0d6-9eae8685e164@.discussions.microsoft.com...
> It seems MS changed the way syscolumns table works. It appears this is
> no longer a table, but probably a systemview. Problem is, it looks like
> the autoval column is no longer working. I was using this to determine
> whether a column was an auto incrementing identity field. How should I
> go about determining a column's auto increment values? >
> Thanx,
>|||Have you tried COLUMNPROPERTY ( id , column , property )
using
IsIdentity

Tim S

Changes in SQL2005 syscolumns table

It seems MS changed the way syscolumns table works. It appears this is no longer a table, but probably a systemview. Problem is, it looks like the autoval column is no longer working. I was using this to determine whether a column was an auto incrementing identity field. How should I go about determining a column's auto increment values?

Thanx,Since there is only one autoincrement column per table, you can use SELECT

IDENT_CURRENT('table_name')
wrote in message

news:8bf47d13-a87f-4304-b0d6-9eae8685e164@.discussions.microsoft.com...

> It seems MS changed the way syscolumns table works. It appears this is

> no longer a table, but probably a systemview. Problem is, it looks like

> the autoval column is no longer working. I was using this to determine

> whether a column was an auto incrementing identity field. How should I

> go about determining a column's auto increment values?

>

> Thanx,

>|||Have you tried COLUMNPROPERTY ( id , column , property )
using
IsIdentity

Tim S