Is it possible to auto-generate a GUID into an Insert statement?
Also, what type of field should I use to store this GUID?
Is it possible to auto-generate a GUID into an Insert statement?
Also, what type of field should I use to store this GUID?
You can use the SYS_GUID() function to generate a GUID in your insert statement:
insert into mytable (guid_col, data) values (sys_guid(), 'xxx');
The preferred datatype for storing GUIDs is RAW(16).
As Gopinath answer:
select sys_guid() from dual union all select sys_guid() from dual union all select sys_guid() from dual
You get
88FDC68C75DDF955E040449808B55601
88FDC68C75DEF955E040449808B55601
88FDC68C75DFF955E040449808B55601
As Tony Andrews says, differs only at one character
88FDC68C75DDF955E040449808B55601
88FDC68C75DEF955E040449808B55601
88FDC68C75DFF955E040449808B55601
Maybe useful: http://feuerthoughts.blogspot.com/2006/02/watch-out-for-sequential-oracle-guids.html
You can also include the guid in the create statement of the table as default, for example:
create table t_sysguid ( id raw(16) default sys_guid() primary key , filler varchar2(1000) ) /
It is not clear what you mean by auto-generate a guid into an insert statement but at a guess, I think you are trying to do something like the following:
INSERT INTO MY_TAB (ID, NAME) VALUES (SYS_GUID(), 'Adams'); INSERT INTO MY_TAB (ID, NAME) VALUES (SYS_GUID(), 'Baker');
In that case I believe the ID column should be declared as RAW(16);
I am doing this off the top of my head. I don't have an Oracle instance handy to test against, but I think that is what you want.
You can run the following query
select sys_guid() from dual union all select sys_guid() from dual union all select sys_guid() from dual
sys_guid() is a poor option, as other answers have mentioned. One way to generate UUIDs and avoid sequential values is to generate random hex strings yourself:
select regexp_replace( to_char( DBMS_RANDOM.value(0, power(2, 128)-1), 'FM0xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'), '([a-f0-9]{8})([a-f0-9]{4})([a-f0-9]{4})([a-f0-9]{4})([a-f0-9]{12})', '\1-\2-\3-\4-\5') from DUAL;
you can use function bellow in order to generate your UUID
create or replace FUNCTION RANDOM_GUID RETURN VARCHAR2 IS RNG NUMBER; N BINARY_INTEGER; CCS VARCHAR2 (128); XSTR VARCHAR2 (4000) := NULL; BEGIN CCS := '0123456789' || 'ABCDEF'; RNG := 15; FOR I IN 1 .. 32 LOOP N := TRUNC (RNG * DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE) + 1; XSTR := XSTR || SUBSTR (CCS, N, 1); END LOOP; RETURN SUBSTR(XSTR, 1, 4) || '-' || SUBSTR(XSTR, 5, 4) || '-' || SUBSTR(XSTR, 9, 4) || '-' || SUBSTR(XSTR, 13,4) || '-' || SUBSTR(XSTR, 17,4) || '-' || SUBSTR(XSTR, 21,4) || '-' || SUBSTR(XSTR, 24,4) || '-' || SUBSTR(XSTR, 28,4); END RANDOM_GUID;
Example of GUID genedrated by the function above:
8EA4-196D-BC48-9793-8AE8-5500-03DC-9D04