What should RowGuid be set to?


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Hi,
I'm recreating test set of tables from an existing database into DDT. We use GUIDs throughout as the PK for each table and I notice the tables created by the DDT all have their RowGuid property set to No whereas the current tables are all set to Yes. The defualt value for the PKs are are to (newid()).

In all original tables we set RowGuid to Yes because that, is indeed, what the column is however I not sure what would have happened had we said No.

My question is: should I change all the settings in DDT so that all out GUID PK's have a RowGuid value of Yes?

TIA - Peter

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Yes, the setting of RowGuid=No is correct for a GUID pk.  The RowGuid is used by SQL Server replication to uniquely identify rows across replicated databases (i.e. you have have two records with the same PK on different servers and when you replicate one database into the other, SQL Server will handle it).  So, the RowGuid property of a column is independent from the primary key.  Generally, when you use replication and a GUID pk, you can make them the same column.
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