{"id":27495,"date":"2024-03-16T08:34:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T08:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-can-i-make-a-primary-key-auto-increment-in-sql-server\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T11:10:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T11:10:35","slug":"how-can-i-make-a-primary-key-auto-increment-in-sql-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-can-i-make-a-primary-key-auto-increment-in-sql-server\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I make a primary key auto-increment in SQL Server?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In SQL Server, you can use the IDENTITY property to make the primary key automatically increment.<\/p>\n<p>When creating a table, you can use IDENTIY(1,1) after the primary key column to designate the primary key&#8217;s auto-increment property. Here, 1 represents the starting value and 1 represents the increment value.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the following is an example of creating a table named &#8220;Customers&#8221; and making the &#8220;CustomerID&#8221; column the primary key with auto-increment.<\/p>\n<p>Make a table called Customers with columns for CustomerID, CustomerName, ContactName, and Address. The CustomerID column will be the primary key and automatically increment by 1 for each new entry.<\/p>\n<p>In the above example, the CustomerID column is designated as the primary key and set to auto-increment using the IDENTIFY(1,1) property. This means that the value of CustomerID will automatically increase each time a row of data is inserted.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that the IDENTITY property can only be applied to columns of integer data type.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In SQL Server, you can use the IDENTITY property to make the primary key automatically increment. 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