Oracle® Database SQL Reference 10g Release 2 (10.2) Part Number B14200-02 |
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Syntax
Purpose
SYS_GUID
generates and returns a globally unique identifier (RAW
value) made up of 16 bytes. On most platforms, the generated identifier consists of a host identifier, a process or thread identifier of the process or thread invoking the function, and a nonrepeating value (sequence of bytes) for that process or thread.
Examples
The following example adds a column to the sample table hr.locations
, inserts unique identifiers into each row, and returns the 32-character hexadecimal representation of the 16-byte RAW
value of the global unique identifier:
ALTER TABLE locations ADD (uid_col RAW(32)); UPDATE locations SET uid_col = SYS_GUID(); SELECT location_id, uid_col FROM locations; LOCATION_ID UID_COL ----------- ---------------------------------------- 1000 7CD5B7769DF75CEFE034080020825436 1100 7CD5B7769DF85CEFE034080020825436 1200 7CD5B7769DF95CEFE034080020825436 1300 7CD5B7769DFA5CEFE034080020825436 . . .