Autonumber in MSSQL
I'm in the "Enterprise Manager" for this MSSQL trying to figure out how to do INSERT queries. When I run:
INSERT INTO Customer (Username)
VALUES ('hihi')I get the error "...Cannot insert the value NULL into column id, table... column does not allow nulls. INSERT fails"
Now I assumed that the Customer table's id field was an autonumber (hopefully there is such thing in MSSQL), but if it's not, then that probably caused the problem. So is that statement correct? And how can I determine for sure if the id column on Customer is an autonumber? If autonumbers don't exist in MSSQL, how can you figure out what the next id should be?
teammatt3 posted this at 15:17 — 28th July 2007.
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It turned out that there was another table in the database that held the next number for the customer table. So I have to select it, then run my insert query using the number I pulled from the other table, and then do an update and add one to the number in the other table. Confusing!
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