MS SQL 2005 identity lost new database

Hello

I am creating a TABLE

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[TbTest](
[id_TbTest] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ,
[Title] [varchar](100) NULL,
) ON [PRIMARY]

when looking at the Column Properties in MS Server Management Studio I get :
Identity Specification = Yes
(Is Identity) = Yes
Increment = 1
Seed = 1

now if I want to make a copy of that database, importing datas and tables

I get :
Identity Specification = No
(Is Identity) = No

How can I avoid this problem ? my application is not working anymore

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TbTest] WITH NOCHECK ADD
CONSTRAINT [PK_TbTest] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
[id_TbTest]
) ON [PRIMARY]

is not solving that problem

thank youit sounds like you copied your data using SSIS or DTS or whatever you want to call it. This will copy your data but not your schema. You likely lost all of your indexes and constraints as well. What you want to do if you want to copy all of your data and your schema, is to take a backup of the database you want to copy and restore that database to a new location. If it is a new server, you will have to remap you logins as well.|||With SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Manager you could quickly and easily copy both data and schema between servers. With 2005, you can't. This is Microsoft's idea of progress...

A work-around is to generate a script for you schema and execute it on the target server, and then you SSIS to transfer just the data.|||thank you

what is the code line for ALTER COLUMN to create IDENTITY (1,1)
I must do it now with code ?|||there is not one.

I am a little concerned from what you said in first and last post that you are going to mess up all of your primary key and foreign key relationships.

however if you must you need to create a new table and in your create table statement you must define an identity column. copy the data from your current table to the new one. drop the old table, and rename the new one.|||in that way maybe ?:

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TbTest] ADD
[id1_TbTest] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED;
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TbTest] DROP COLUMN [id_TbTest];
EXEC sp_rename '[TbTest].[id1_TbTest]', 'id_TbTest', 'COLUMN';

thank you

MS SQL 2000 - How to reflect table updates

Hello!
I have 2 database (DB1 and DB2) in 1 server. I want to reflect new changes made in DB1.tbl_pm_project to DB2.tbl_pm_project. Any idea on how to do it.
Thank you
JJ-honHello!

I have 2 database (DB1 and DB2) in 1 server. I want to reflect new changes made in DB1.tbl_pm_project to DB2.tbl_pm_project. Any idea on how to do it.

Thank you
JJ-hon

What kind of changes? Structural changes or data changes? How often do the changes need to be reflected (real time, near real time or batch)?

I'll assume data changes (insert, update, delete) and that the requirement is for real time.

For two databases on the same server, your best bet is probably going to be a trigger. I do not like triggers that affect data across schema boundaries (ie, from one db to another), but this will probably be your quickest solution.

See SQL BOL.

Regards,

hmscott|||Triggers or DTS or Replication... according to your requirement.

As you have only one table and if data is not huge then Trigger is fine else normally it is not preferred.

It's all about how fast & consistent data changes you want to reflect.|||Or let a stored procedure update both databases in a transaction since they are on the same server.