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I've had luck in the past with a create table followed by an alter table to set the identity column.


ALTER TABLE tableName ALTER COLUMN columnName SET GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY (CYCLE);
ALTER TABLE tableName ADD COLUMN columnName DEC(11,0) GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY (CYCLE);

Chris Hiebert
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 12:27 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Create SQL table LIKE another table, and add a new column

(This is based on a thread I started last week, "Add a unique key field to view without redefining table".)

So, I'm attempting to create a new table by way of using LIKE:
create table newtable
like oldtable,
UniqueID BigInt GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY

It's not liking the comma, giving SQL0104:
Token , was not valid. Valid tokens: IN ON NOT DATA LONG OBID UNIT WITH INDEX VALUE APPEND RCDFMT.

I've been reading the CREATE TABLE
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