I have a table that is exposed to large inserts and deletes on a regular basis (and because of this there are large gaps in the number sequence of the primary id column). It had a primary id column of type 'int' that was changed to 'bigint'. Despite this change, the limit of this datatype will also inevitably be exceeded at some point in the future (current usage would indicate this to be the case within the next year or so). I have a table that is exposed to large inserts