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Creates an identity column in a table. This property is used with the CREATE TABLE and ALTER TABLE Transact-SQL statements.

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Can I rely on reading SQL Server Identity values in order?

Unfortunately, documentation on Identity doesn't say a lot about how Identity works in the context of multiple concurrent transactions, it only says "Each new value is generated based on the current seed … An identity value (X) is generated. The corresponding row lock is taken on the clustered index based on the identity value (unless lock escalation kicks in, in which case the whole table is locked). …
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