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kingmullet
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Posted - 2012-07-24 : 13:51:23

I have a table that I have imported from excel
Firstname, Lastname, LoginID. THis table contains over 900 users. We have a table that is the master table and for every user ther is a unique instance id. How can I import the new users into the master table and have the instance id auto increment for each new record?

tkizer
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Posted - 2012-07-24 : 14:07:14

Is the unique instance id an identity column? If it is, it'll auto-increment on its own just by not including the column name in the insert/select query.

If it's not an identity column, you can use ROW_NUMBER() function to get number them.

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