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.

Hello everyone.I Have an application that creates some form of log in a SQL table that has an identity column.An auditor checked these logs and found some gaps in the identity column sequence. Now ...

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.