SQL Server: arbitrary auto-increment of primary key

UPDATE Thanks to Marting & Aron, I've found a work-around. Here's the official response from Microsoft:

In SQL Server 2012 the implementation of the identity property has been changed to accommodate investments into other features. In previous versions of SQL Server the tracking of identity generation relied on transaction log records for each identity value generated. In SQL Server 2012 we generate identity values in batches and log only the max value of the batch. This reduces the amount and frequency of information written to the transaction log improving insert scalability.

If you require the same identity generation semantics as previous versions of SQL Server there are two options available:

• Use trace flag 272 o This will cause a log record to be generated for each generated identity value. The performance of identity generation may be impacted by turning on this trace flag.

• Use a sequence generator with the NO CACHE setting(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff878091.aspx) o This will cause a log record to be generated for each generated sequence value. Note that the performance of sequence value generation may be impacted by using NO CACHE.

Example:

CREATE SEQUENCE s1 AS INT START WITH 1 NO CACHE; 
CREATE TABLE t1 (Id INT PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT NEXT VALUE FOR s1, col INT NOT NULL);