Set start value for column with autoincrement
You need to set the Identity seed to that value:
CREATE TABLE orders
(
id int IDENTITY(9586,1)
)
To alter an existing table:
ALTER TABLE orders ALTER COLUMN Id INT IDENTITY (9586, 1);
More info on CREATE TABLE (Transact-SQL) IDENTITY (Property)
In the Table Designer on SQL Server Management Studio you can set the where the auto increment will start. Right-click on the table in Object Explorer and choose Design, then go to the Column Properties for the relevant column:
Here the autoincrement will start at 760
From Resetting SQL Server Identity Columns:
Retrieving the identity for the table Employees
:
DBCC checkident ('Employees')
Repairing the identity seed (if for some reason the database is inserting duplicate identities):
DBCC checkident ('Employees', reseed)
Changing the identity seed for the table Employees
to 1000:
DBCC checkident ('Employees', reseed, 1000)
The next row inserted will begin at 1001.
Also note that you cannot normally set a value for an IDENTITY column. You can, however, specify the identity of rows if you set IDENTITY_INSERT to ON for your table. For example:
SET IDENTITY_INSERT Orders ON
-- do inserts here
SET IDENTITY_INSERT Orders OFF
This insert will reset the identity to the last inserted value. From MSDN:
If the value inserted is larger than the current identity value for the table, SQL Server automatically uses the new inserted value as the current identity value.