When you start to use GUIDs (uniqueidentifiers) as primary keys in T-SQL one of the first questions is how to replace @@IDENITY in your primary key column. A typical table with int as a primary key might look like this:
CREATE T1(ID int PRIMARY KEY IDENTITY, Name varchar(50))
When you insert into this table and want the primary key of the row that you inserted you typically do this:
DECLARE @ID int INSERT INTO T1 (Name) values ('Tom Smith') SET @ID = @@IDENTITY
However, when you use uniqueidentifiers as primary keys you don't declare them as IDENTITY, here is how you would build this table:
CREATE T1(ID uniqueidentifier PRIMARY KEY , Name varchar(50))
And here is what the INSERT looks like:
DECLARE @Id uniqueidentifier SET @Id = NewId() INSERT INTO T1 (ID, Name) VALUES (@Id, 'Tom Smith')
When using uniqueidentifiers you create them ahead of the insertion and SQL Server doesn't keep track of the process for you.
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