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I’ve gone ahead and filled in the columns as they were in our original Customers table, but we also
need to define our first column as being an identity column. Unfortunately, we don’t appear to have any
way of doing that with the default grid here. To change what items we can define for our table, we need
to right-click in the editing dialog, and select Table View ➪ Modify Custom.
We then get a list of items from which we can choose, shown in Figure 5-7. For now, we’ll just select the
extra item we need — Identity and its associated elements Seed and Increment.
Figure 5-7
Now go back to our editing dialog and select Table View ➪ Custom to view the identity column (see
Figure 5-8), and we’re ready to fill in our table definition.
OK, so SQL Server can be a bit temperamental on this. If you do not check the box to make this the default,
then SQL Server will change what your “custom” view looks like, but it will not make the custom view
the active one — the result is that you won’t see the changes you made as you exit the dialog. So, again,
make sure that after changing the view, you right-click and select Table View ➪ MA Custom again. It
should then look like Figure 5-8.
Figure 5-8
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