Pass row count to a column in Oracle [duplicate]

Answer 1

You can do this (works for versions 12c or later):

alter table your_table add id number generated always as identity;

Though, this also generates new values for column, for future insertions.

Also about total row number, this should almost always generate values from 1 to "total row number", but anyway (don't know exactly, when this may work incorrectly), for check this, after alter you can do: select count(*), max(id) from your_table. values should match together.

Answer 2

The simplest solution is

update your_table
set id = rownum;

However this won't help you with future insertions to this table. If that is something with is going to happen build a sequence.

SQL> select max(id) from your_table;

   MAX(ID)
----------


SQL> create sequence your_table_seq;

Sequence created.

SQL> update your_table
  2  set id = your_table_seq.nextval;

30 rows updated.

SQL> select max(id) from your_table;

   MAX(ID)
----------
        30

SQL> select id from your_table;

        ID
----------
         1
         2
         3
....
        28
        29
        30

30 rows selected.

SQL> 

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By the way, now you've added an ID column and populated it be sure to enforce it as a primary key:

alter table your_table add constraint your_table_pk primary key (id);