I imagine you are just looking for simple syntax in order to reseed the identity column of a table you just deleted from. Here is the quick version: [cc lang=”sql”] DBCC CHECKIDENT(‘##reseed_example’, RESEED, @max_seed) [/cc] And here is an extended example: [cc lang=”sql”] — populate a table with identity SELECT ID = IDENTITY(int,1,1) ,name INTO ##reseed_example FROM dbo.sysobjects — delete some records DELETE FROM ##reseed_example WHERE ID > 5 — find the current max identity DECLARE @max_seed int = ISNULL((SELECT MAX(ID) FROM ##reseed_example),0) — use the current max as the seed DBCC CHECKIDENT(‘##reseed_example’, RESEED, @max_seed) — let’s test INSERT INTO ##reseed_example ( name ) SELECT ‘newobject’ — done SELECT * FROM ##reseed_example [/cc] it should be noted that in order to use DBCC CHECKIDENT you need to be dbo (db_owner). This does present an issue sometimes because often the reason the user is performing a delete instead of a truncate is because they do not have dbo rights. To overcome this, you can will need to create a procedure that that uses: WITH EXECUTE AS ‘dbo’. And reseed from there.