Subject Add and populate a primary key
Author marc_guillot
Hello.

I have imported data from an old database, with no primary keys in
most tables. I want to add and populate a primary key to them, but I
don't know how to do it.

I remember there is some kind of virtual column to identify a row in a
table with no primary key, but I don't remember his name and I can't
find it.

How can I do something like that (what is then name of XXX field name) ? :

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alter table OLD_DATA add ID integer;

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ID = 1;

for select XXX
from OLD_DATA
into :XXX do begin
update OLD_DATA set ID = :ID where XXX = :XXX;

ID = ID + 1;
end

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alter table OLD_DATA add constraint PK_OLD_DATA primary key (ID)

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Thanks.