ora_rowscn equivalent

• baseehkhan

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  November 26, 2013 at 10:33 pm

  #301701

  Hi,

  Is there any timestamps or values created by sql server for each rows (in incremental way).

  like the ORACLE have the ora_rowscn. please help for this.

  Thanks,

  basee

• Koen Verbeeck

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  November 26, 2013 at 11:55 pm

  #1669340

  There are several ways to do this in SQL Server:

  * you can addan identity column (which has one of the numeric) data types. This column auto-increments.

  * in SQL Server 2012, you can create a sequence object which serves about the same goals as the identity, but is more managed

  * you could add a column with data type uniqueidentifier and put a default of newid() on it (or newsequentialid())

  * you could add a rowversion column

  * you could add a datetime or datetime2 column and assign the default of getdate() to new rows. This isn't garantueed to be unique though.

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