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How can we alter table with auto increment column for a delta table

Bittu6084
New Contributor II

How can we alter table with auto increment column for a delta table

I have tried this but not working:

ALTER TABLE dbgtpTest.student ADD COLUMN Student_Id identity(100,1)

any Suggestions will be helpful

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Hubert-Dudek
Esteemed Contributor III

@Rakesh Reddy Badamโ€‹ , For ALTER ... ADD COLUMN in doc is only SYNC IDENTITY.

If you want to add an identity column to the existing table just create a new table with an identity column and then copy the data.

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-werners-
Esteemed Contributor III

@Rakesh Reddy Badamโ€‹ , I am not sure if that is supported. I only find references to creating an ID column with the CREATE TABLE statement.

Hubert-Dudek
Esteemed Contributor III

@Rakesh Reddy Badamโ€‹ , For ALTER ... ADD COLUMN in doc is only SYNC IDENTITY.

If you want to add an identity column to the existing table just create a new table with an identity column and then copy the data.

QPeiran
New Contributor III

Hi, I have the same concern. What's the best way to achieve this?

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