Re: Help needed with GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY

[Mark S Waterbury <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon:

See:
    
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_ibm_i_71.sqlp/rbafyinsertidentity.htm

HTH,

Mark S. Waterbury

> On 2/9/2017 3:20 PM, Jon Paris wrote:
> I have a set of SQL statements originally for MySQL (I think) which I am attempting to convert to DB2.
>
> These include things like this:
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>   jobNumber INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
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> I believe that  AUTO_INCREMENT needs to be replaced by GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY but I also have existing data that has to be loaded into the table and when I use this qualifier it refuses to allow data input for the column. I tried removing the qualifier, inserting the data and then doing an ALTER TABLE but it is not happy with that either.
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> So - question is - how do you do this in DB2 - it seems to work in Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, etc. so I'm guessing it can be done but I'm stumped.
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>
> Jon Paris
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