user365647
user365647

Reputation:

How to add an autoincrement field for an existing table and populate it with serial numbers for rows?

e.g. I have a table:

create table test (testdata varchar2(255));

then I need an autoincrement field:

alter table test add id numeric(10);

create sequence test_seq 
start with 1 
increment by 1 
nomaxvalue; 

create trigger test_trigger
before insert on test
for each row
begin
select test_seq.nextval into :new.id from dual;
end;

what should I do next to populate already existing fields with their serial numbers in "id" ?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 3935

Answers (1)

Alex Reitbort
Alex Reitbort

Reputation: 13696

update test
set id = test_seq.nextval

Upvotes: 10

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