Arthur Fuller explores the value of identity columns and the usefulness of their arbitrary values and discusses ways to use SQL Server 2000's IDENTITY_INSERT setting.

I'm afraid your going to have to name the columns to in your select statement. You can use Query Analyzer to generate the SELECT statement and just edit out the identity column to help save some time.

Sometimes, as when testing a table in a Microsoft SQL Server database, you need to reset an identity column to its initial seed value, typically one. During testing, you populate the table with ...

I know that in MS-SQL, you can reseed an identity column by doing this:DBCC CHECKIDENT ( 'table_name', RESEED, new_reseed_value )Is there any similar function for MySql (v4.1)? It's for an orders ...