Does SQL Server guarantee sequential inserting of an identity column?

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Published on 2010-05-13T17:34:50Z Indexed on 2010/05/13 17:44 UTC
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In other words, is the following "cursoring" approach guaranteed to work:

  1. retrieve rows from DB
  2. save the largest ID from the returned records for later, e.g. in LastMax
  3. later, "SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE Id > {0}", LastMax

In order for that to work, I have to be sure that every row I didn't get in step 1 has an Id greater than LastMax. Is this guaranteed, or can I run into weird race conditions?

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