Generating Random ID's in Microsoft SQL Server - sql

I want to create a table in sql server and fill it up with data (people's info) every person should have a unique ID different than the auto incremented ID's by sql server
For example i need the ID for the first person inserted like this: 2016xxxx
how to fix the 2016 and randomly generate the numbers after that to be filled instead of xxxx
should i use a regular expression ?

You can also create a computed column like below
CREATE TABLE tableName
(
PkAutoId INT PRIMARY KEY IDENTITY(1,1),
PersonUniqueNo AS (CAST(DATEPART(YEAR,GETDATE()) AS VARCHAR) + RIGHT(RIGHT(CAST(RAND() AS VARCHAR),4) + CAST(PkAutoId AS VARCHAR),4))
)
Computed Column "PersonUniqueNo" is 8 Digit Unique Number comprising of Current Year And Conceited value of Random number and Primary Key Id for 4 Length, Total length will be 8 as asked.

You could create a function that would get the next value for you and use that instead of an AUTO_INCREMENT field.
I wouldn't recommend it tho. You shouldn't format the data like that before inserting it. That sort of thing should be done on the way out, preferably by the front-end code. Or you can just write a query and create a view ...
However if you must do that here is the complete answer with the code:
Is there a way to insert an auto-incremental primary id with a prefix in mysql database?

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Inserting new rows and generate a new id based on the current last row

The primary key of my table is an Identity column of an ID. I want to be able to insert a new row and have it know what the last ID in the table currently is and add one to it. I know I can use Scope Identity to get the last inserted column from my code, but I am worried about people manually adding entries in the database, because they do this quite often. Is there a way I can look at the last ID in the table and not just the last ID my code inserted?
With a SQL Identity column, you don't need to do anything special. This is the default behavior. SQL Server will handle making sure you don't have collisions regardless of where the inserts come from.
The ##Identity will pull the latest identity, and scope_identity will grab the identity from the current scope.
A scope is a module: a stored procedure, trigger, function, or batch. Therefore, if two statements are in the same stored procedure, function, or batch, they are in the same scope.
If you don't want to allow manual entries to the primary column, then you can add Identity constraint to it along with primary key constraint.
Example, while creating a table,
CREATE Table t_Temp(RowID Int Primary Key Identity(1,1), Name Varchar(50))
INSERT Into t_Temp values ('UserName')
INSERT Into t_Temp values ('UserName1')
SELECT * from t_Temp
You can query the table and get the next available code in one SQL query:
SELECT COALESCE(MAX(CAST("RowID" AS INT)),0) +1 as 'NextRowID' from <tableName>
The "0" here is a default, meaning if there are no rows found, the first code returned would be (0+1) =1
Generally I have 999 instead of the 0 as I like my RowID/primary key etc. to start at 1000.

How to create a primary key column and fill it with integer values on HANA SQL

I searched but only could found partial answer to this question
The goal would be here to create a new ID column on an existing table.
This new column would be the primary key for the table and I simply want it to be filled with integer values from 1 to number of rows.
What would be the query for that?
I know I have to first alter table to create the new column :
ALTER TABLE <MYTABLE> ADD (ID INTEGER);
Then I could use the series generator :
INSERT INTO <MYTABLE.ID> SELECT SERIES_GENERATE_INTEGER(1,1,(number of rows));
Once the column is filled I could use this line:
ALTER TABLE <MYTABLE> ADD PRIMARY KEY ("ID");
I am sure there is an easier way to do this
You wrote that you want to add a "new ID column to an existing table" and fill it with unique values.
That's not a "standard" operation in any DBMS, as the usual assumption is that records are created with a primary key and not retro fitted.
Thus, "ease" of operation for this is relative to what else you want to do.
For example, if you want to continue using this ID as a primary key for further operations, then using a once-off generator function like the SERIES_GENERATE_INTEGER or a query won't be very helpful since you have to avoid duplicates of already existing values.
Two, relatively easy, options come to mind:
Using a sequence:
create sequence myid;
update <table> set ID = myid.nextval;
And for succeeding inserts:
insert into <table> (id, ..., ...) VALUES (myid.nextval, ..., ...) ;
Note that this generates a value for every existing record and not a predefined set of size X.
Using a GUID
By using a GUID you generate a unique value every time you call the 'SYSUUID' function in SAP HANA. check docu here
Something like
update <table> set ID = SYSUUID;
should do the trick here.
Subsequent inserts would simply call the function for values of ID.

sql add id column in a table

Hi I have a table with
name
a
b
c
d
need to add a id column starting from mid number and want in sql
name ID
a 10262
b 10623
c 10624
d 10625
You won't be able to add an auto-incrementing Primary Key ID column if there's already data in the table without copying the data, dropping the table and recreating it. However, if there's no data you can just add those columns through SQL's Table Editor. Right click any table in SQL Server and click on "Design"; that will get you to the Table Editor. When you declare any Primary Key you can set it's "seed" value, which is the number that it will initially start with; in your case, your seed would be 10262, based on your original post.

Create column from other columns in Database

I have a table name: test
ID | Prefix | ACCID
ID's type is INTEGER which is selected from ID_SEQ
Prefix's type is VARCHAR(6)
ACCID is the combination of Prefix + ID
I want to auto-create ACCID when I insert the ID and Prefix value such as
INSERT INTO TEST (PREFIX) VALUES ('A01407V');
and the database store the ACCID as 'A01407V000001'
I create the sequence as
CREATE SEQUENCE ID_SEQ AS INT MAXVALUE 999999 CYCLE;
How to implement SQL statement to produce this result?
Thank you for all solutions and suggestions.
Ps. I use Apache Derby as my SQL Server
As documented in the manual, Derby supports generated columns (since Version 10.5)
The real problem is the formatting of a number with leading zeros as Derby has no function for that.
If you really, really think you need to store a value that can always be determined by the values already stored in the table, you can use something like this:
create table test
(
id integer,
prefix varchar(6),
accid generated always as (prefix||substr('000000', 1, 6 - length(rtrim(char(id))))||rtrim(char(id)))
);
The expression substr('000000', 1, 6 - length(rtrim(char(id))))||rtrim(char(id)) is just a complicated way to format a the ID with leading zeros.
I would highly recommend to not store this value though. It is much cleaner to create a view that shows this value if you do need access to this in SQL.
You can use COMPUTED Column.
Is a computed column that is based on some other column in the table. We can physically save the data of the column/ or not. Table will automatically update the value of this column.
syntax:
columnname AS expression [PERSISTED]
--PERSISTED will make it physically saved, otherwise it will be calculated every time.
We can create indexes on computed columns.
You add, The following in the table CREATE Script
ACCID AS Prefix + CAST(ID AS CHAR(6)) [PERSISTED]

SQL Server identity counterpart problem

I'm using SQL Server and I want to use identity constraint in it
I know how to use it in following manner
create table mytable
(
c1 int primary key identity(1,1);
)
the above code works fine but what if i want the identity column to have values as EMP001, EMP002,... instead of 1,2....
Thanks in advance,
Guru
Identity columns can only be integers. If you want it to "look like" EMP001, EMP002, etc then that's simply a display issue and not a storage one (that is, you don't need to store "EMP001", "EMP002" etc, just store it as 1, 2, 3 via a normal identity column and display it in your application as "EMP001", "EMP002", etc)
Create a computed column that concatenates like this:
'EMP' + RIGHT('00' + CAST(c1 AS varchar(3)), 3)
Otherwise an IDENTITY column as surrogate key is just that: a meaningless number.
I assume you're only going to have 999 rows or is there another sequence somewhere?