I'm trying to programmatically add an identity column to a table Employees. Not sure what I'm doing wrong with my syntax.
ALTER TABLE Employees
ADD COLUMN EmployeeID int NOT NULL IDENTITY (1, 1)
ALTER TABLE Employees ADD CONSTRAINT
PK_Employees PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
EmployeeID
) WITH( STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF,
ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
What am I doing wrong? I tried to export the script, but SQL Mgmt Studio does a whole Temp Table rename thing.
UPDATE: I think it is choking on the first statement with "Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'COLUMN'."
Just remove COLUMN
from ADD COLUMN
ALTER TABLE Employees
ADD EmployeeID numeric NOT NULL IDENTITY (1, 1)
ALTER TABLE Employees ADD CONSTRAINT
PK_Employees PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
EmployeeID
) WITH( STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF,
ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]