根据设计，没有简单的方法来打开或关闭现有列的标识特性。要做到这一点，唯一干净的方法是创建一个新列并使其成为标识列，或者创建一个新表并迁移数据。

如果我们使用SQL Server Management Studio去除列“id”上的标识值，则会创建一个新的临时表，数据被移动到临时表中，旧表被删除，新表被重命名。

使用Management Studio进行更改，然后在设计器中右键单击并选择“生成更改脚本”。

你会看到这就是SQL server在后台所做的。

根据我目前的情况，我采用这种方法。我想通过脚本插入数据后给一个主表的身份。

因为我想要追加身份，所以它总是从1开始到我想要的记录计数的结束。

--first drop column and add with identity
ALTER TABLE dbo.tblProductPriceList drop column ID 
ALTER TABLE dbo.tblProductPriceList add ID INT IDENTITY(1,1)

--then add primary key to that column (exist option you can ignore)
IF  NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.key_constraints  WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[PK_tblProductPriceList]') AND parent_object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[tblProductPriceList]'))
    ALTER TABLE [tblProductPriceList] ADD PRIMARY KEY (id)
GO

这将创建具有identity的相同主键列

我使用了这个链接:https://blog.sqlauthority.com/2014/10/11/sql-server-add-auto-incremental-identity-column-to-table-after-creating-table/

向现有表添加主键

修改列的标识属性:

In Server Explorer, right-click the table with identity properties you want to modify and click Open Table Definition. The table opens in Table Designer. Clear the Allow nulls check box for the column you want to change. In the Column Properties tab, expand the Identity Specification property. Click the grid cell for the Is Identity child property and choose Yes from the drop-down list. Type a value in the Identity Seed cell. This value will be assigned to the first row in the table. The value 1 will be assigned by default.

就是这样，对我很管用

如果最初的海报实际上想要设置一个现有的列为表的PRIMARY KEY，实际上不需要列为IDENTITY列(两种不同的东西)，那么这可以通过t-SQL完成:

ALTER TABLE [YourTableName]
ADD CONSTRAINT [ColumnToSetAsPrimaryKey] PRIMARY KEY ([ColumnToSetAsPrimaryKey])

请注意，在PRIMARY KEY选项之后，列名周围的括号。

虽然这篇文章是旧的，我只是对请求者的需求做了一个假设，但我觉得这些额外的信息可能会对遇到这个线程的用户有所帮助，因为我相信对话可能会导致一个人认为，如果不先将现有的列添加为新列，就不能将其设置为主键，这是不正确的。

As I understood in normal cases we are creating a table with Primary key which is having Identity property So Rename or Delete a column which is associated with Primary Key constraint will not be possible because constraint Rules are validating column structure. Tto achieve this we have to process some steps in the following way: Let us assume TableName = 'Employee' and ColumnName = 'EmployeeId' 1. Add new column 'EmployeeId_new' in the 'Employee' table ALTER TABLE Employee ADD EmployeeId_new INT IDENTITY(1,1)

Now remove column 'EmployeeId' from 'Employee' table ALTER TABLE Employee DROP COLUMN EmployeeId This will throw error because of Primary Key Constraint rules are applicable and validating column structure. *### 'Msg 5074, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 The object [PK_dbo.Employee] is dependent on colmn [EmployeeId].'### So we have to remove the Primary Key constraint first from the table 'Employee' then we can remove the column ALTER TABLE Employee DROP constraint [PK_dbo.Employee] Now we can remove the column 'EmployeeId' from 'Employee' table as did in the previous step where we got error ALTER TABLE Employee DROP COLUMN EmployeeId Now Column 'EmployeeId' removed from table So we will Rename the newly added new column 'EmployeeId_new' with 'EmployeeId' sp_rename 'Employee.EmployeeId', 'EmployeeId_new', 'COLUMN' To rearrange the table in the same form as It was, we have to add Primary Key Constraint for the column 'EmployeeId' ALTER TABLE Employee add constraint [PK_dbo.Employee] primary key (EmployeeId)

8. 现在，带有'EmployeeId'的表'Employee'随着现有的主键约束被修改为Identity规则

基本上有四个逻辑步骤。

创建一个新的Identity列。为这个新列打开Insert Identity。 将源列(希望转换为Identity的列)中的数据插入到这个新列中。 关闭新列的Insert Identity。 删除源列并将新列重命名为源列的名称。

可能会有一些更复杂的事情，比如跨多个服务器工作等。

有关步骤(使用ssms和T-sql)，请参阅下面的文章。这些步骤适用于不太熟悉T-SQL的初学者。

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/23816.how-to-convert-int-column-to-identity-in-the-ms-sql-server.aspx