Manually Insert a Primary Key Value

I have a colleague who mysteriously lost his record in our Employee table.
The "employee ID" field serves as the primary key on the table.
How do I manually insert his record, including the old primary key value,
back into the table? That is, how do I bypass the primary-key constraint?
Thanks in advance,
Mark HolahanWhat is the definition of the table?
AMB
"Mark Holahan" wrote:

> I have a colleague who mysteriously lost his record in our Employee table.
> The "employee ID" field serves as the primary key on the table.
> How do I manually insert his record, including the old primary key value,
> back into the table? That is, how do I bypass the primary-key constraint?
> Thanks in advance,
> Mark Holahan
>
>|||Is this an identity field? if so use:
SET IDENTITY_INSERT ON
--execute insert statement here
SET IDENTITY_INSERT OFF|||You can't "bypass" a primary key constraint unless you drop it. I
assume you are actually referring to the IDENTITY property on this
column. The IDENTITY property is quite distinct from a PRIMARY KEY
constraint. If you want to insert an explicit IDENTITY value then use
the SET IDENTITY_INSERT table_name ON option.
Why does it matter to you if the row gets inserted with a different
IDENTITY value to the one it originally had? It shouldn't have been
possible for the accidental delete to cause "orphan" rows in a
referencing table - That's assuming you have correctly declared foreign
key constraints against the employee ID column. If you don't have
foreign keys then that's something you really ought to fix.
David Portas
SQL Server MVP
--|||AMB,
The table definition follows:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Employee] (
[id] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL ,
[FName] [varchar] (25) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
[MI] [char] (1) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
[LName] [varchar] (25) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
[BranchId] [int] NULL ,
[SalesRepId] [int] NULL ,
[Email] [varchar] (100) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
[Title] [varchar] (50) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
[NetworkId] [char] (20) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
[UserName] [varchar] (20) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
[Password] [char] (10) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
[Deactivated] [datetime] NULL ,
[ResetPW] [bit] NOT NULL ,
[Tries] [tinyint] NULL ,
[LastLoginDtm] [datetime] NULL ,
[PendingInfoUpdate] [bit] NOT NULL ,
[IsSalesRep] [bit] NOT NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Employee] WITH NOCHECK ADD
CONSTRAINT [PK_Employee] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
[id]
) WITH FILLFACTOR = 90 ON [PRIMARY]
GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Employee] ADD
CONSTRAINT [DF_Employee_ResetPW] DEFAULT (0) FOR [ResetPW],
CONSTRAINT [DF_Employee_PendingInfoUpdate] DEFAULT (0) FOR
[PendingInfoUpdate],
CONSTRAINT [DF_Employee_IsSalesRep] DEFAULT (0) FOR [IsSalesRep]
GO
"Alejandro Mesa" <AlejandroMesa@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> What is the definition of the table?
>
> AMB
> "Mark Holahan" wrote:
>|||Read David's post.
AMB
"Mark Holahan" wrote:

> AMB,
> The table definition follows:
> CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Employee] (
> [id] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL ,
> [FName] [varchar] (25) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
> [MI] [char] (1) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
> [LName] [varchar] (25) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
> [BranchId] [int] NULL ,
> [SalesRepId] [int] NULL ,
> [Email] [varchar] (100) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
> [Title] [varchar] (50) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
> [NetworkId] [char] (20) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
> [UserName] [varchar] (20) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
> [Password] [char] (10) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
> [Deactivated] [datetime] NULL ,
> [ResetPW] [bit] NOT NULL ,
> [Tries] [tinyint] NULL ,
> [LastLoginDtm] [datetime] NULL ,
> [PendingInfoUpdate] [bit] NOT NULL ,
> [IsSalesRep] [bit] NOT NULL
> ) ON [PRIMARY]
> GO
> ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Employee] WITH NOCHECK ADD
> CONSTRAINT [PK_Employee] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
> (
> [id]
> ) WITH FILLFACTOR = 90 ON [PRIMARY]
> GO
> ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Employee] ADD
> CONSTRAINT [DF_Employee_ResetPW] DEFAULT (0) FOR [ResetPW],
> CONSTRAINT [DF_Employee_PendingInfoUpdate] DEFAULT (0) FOR
> [PendingInfoUpdate],
> CONSTRAINT [DF_Employee_IsSalesRep] DEFAULT (0) FOR [IsSalesRep]
> GO
>
> "Alejandro Mesa" <AlejandroMesa@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in messag
e
> news:3E956B3B-CF85-4FBA-B885-41BE4C9A96FD@.microsoft.com...
>
>|||Distinction noted.
CIO of company claims RI puts unneeded burden on SQL Server. Therefore we
handle RI on the front end. I don't necessarily agree, especially when I
read in BOL that, "The query optimizer also uses constraint definitions to
build high-performance query execution plans." But I've never done the
homework to disprove his theory. So I abide.
"David Portas" <REMOVE_BEFORE_REPLYING_dportas@.acm.org> wrote in message
news:1107450710.189817.206210@.g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> You can't "bypass" a primary key constraint unless you drop it. I
> assume you are actually referring to the IDENTITY property on this
> column. The IDENTITY property is quite distinct from a PRIMARY KEY
> constraint. If you want to insert an explicit IDENTITY value then use
> the SET IDENTITY_INSERT table_name ON option.
> Why does it matter to you if the row gets inserted with a different
> IDENTITY value to the one it originally had? It shouldn't have been
> possible for the accidental delete to cause "orphan" rows in a
> referencing table - That's assuming you have correctly declared foreign
> key constraints against the employee ID column. If you don't have
> foreign keys then that's something you really ought to fix.
> --
> David Portas
> SQL Server MVP
> --
>|||The CIO is wrong. If he wants to design databases he should take a course
first ;-)
Obviously handling RI on the front end isn't working otherwise you wouldn't
have this problem. No surprises there.
David Portas
SQL Server MVP
--