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    Benjamin Ng
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    What is an AutoNumber field's maximum limit? What happens when the maximum limit is reached?

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      What is an AutoNumber field's maximum limit? What happens when the maximum limit is reached?

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      Its the limit of a long interger, roughly 2 billion. I would be interested to know what happens when it hits the max too :)

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        Its the limit of a long interger, roughly 2 billion. I would be interested to know what happens when it hits the max too :)

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        You get an error : Server: Msg 8115, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Arithmetic overflow error converting IDENTITY to data type int. Arithmetic overflow occurred.

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