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SQL: A very painful way to get around using the IDENTITY constraint to create a unique primary key. Lesson learned: use IDENTITY when designing the table that needs an autogenerated unique integer PK.
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| BEGIN TRANSACTION | |
| --Declare variable to hold max primary key value | |
| DECLARE @priKey int = | |
| (SELECT MAX(PK) | |
| FROM normalSales) + 1 | |
| --INSERT values into table | |
| INSERT INTO normalSales(PK, saleDate, saleAmount, city, saleQuantity, saleTotal) | |
| VALUES ( | |
| @priKey, | |
| GETDATE(), | |
| 21000, | |
| 'Salt Lake City', | |
| 1, | |
| 21000 | |
| ) | |
| COMMIT TRANSACTION |
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