Article - CS208897

Windchill is showing gaps in Identity numbers on MS SQL Server in Windchill PDMLink

Modified: 12-Feb-2026   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 10.2 to 13.0
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2012, 2017, 2019 

Description

  • Auto numbering is skipping numbers with MS SQL Server 2012
  • Identity table values are showing gaps of 1000 or 10000
  • Windchill PDMLink is showing gaps in Identity numbers on MS SQL Server 2016
  • The autonumbering skipped almost 10K numbers for wtparts creation on SQL server 2019
  • Numbers skipped in WTPart sequence after MS SQL Database server restart
  • Generated numeric sequence values show unexpected jumps exceeding 40K on SQL server 2019
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