Comments on: Identity Reseed SQL Server 2005 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/identity-reseed/ Sat, 18 May 2013 20:55:13 +0000 hourly 1 By: jsql http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/identity-reseed/#comment-66071 jsql Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:59:56 +0000 #comment-66071 Thanks for your suggestions Dmenke38 and Carlosdl !!

]]> By: dmenke38 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/identity-reseed/#comment-66020 dmenke38 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:50:59 +0000 #comment-66020 Jsql,

The bigint datatype is the largest available in Transact-SQL.

This discussion in Wikipedia may give you insight, but it is not likely you will be able to automatically increment beyond the max value except to store it as a string and increment it with your own algorithm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigint

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