Reset identity seed after deleting records in SQL Server

September 2, 2022 by Tarik

The DBCC CHECKIDENT management command is used to reset identity counter. The command syntax is:

DBCC CHECKIDENT (table_name [, { NORESEED | { RESEED [, new_reseed_value ]}}])
[ WITH NO_INFOMSGS ]

Example:

DBCC CHECKIDENT ('[TestTable]', RESEED, 0);
GO

It was not supported in previous versions of the Azure SQL Database but is supported now.

Thanks to Solomon Rutzky the docs for the command are now fixed.