SQLITE equivalent for Oracle's ROWNUM?

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Raceimaztion picture Raceimaztion · Sep 2, 2012 · Viewed 30.9k times · Source

I'm adding an 'index' column to a table in SQLite3 to allow the users to easily reorder the data, by renaming the old database and creating a new one in its place with the extra columns.

The problem I have is that I need to give each row a unique number in the 'index' column when I INSERT...SELECT the old values.

A search I did turned up a useful term in Oracle called ROWNUM, but SQLite3 doesn't have that. Is there something equivalent in SQLite?

Answer

Johannes Kuhn picture Johannes Kuhn · Sep 2, 2012

You can use one of the special row names ROWID, OID or _ROWID_ to get the rowid of a column. See http://www.sqlite.org/lang_createtable.html#rowid for further details (and that the rows can be hidden by normal columns called ROWID and so on).

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