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How do you create a unique id on an existing table?

getting an incremental value

How do you create a unique id on an existing table?

by  muneco  Posted    (Edited  )
This statement will add a unique id to a table called mytable without otherwise changing the table format:

alter table mytable add column unique_id autoincrement;
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