Example: INSERT and GENERATED ALWAYS Identity Columns - Teradata Database - Teradata Vantage NewSQL Engine

Assume that column_1 of newly created table_1 is an identity column defined as GENERATED ALWAYS. The following INSERT statements automatically generate numbers for column_1 of the inserted rows, even if they specify a value for that column.

     INSERT INTO table_1 (column_1, column_2, column_3)
     VALUES (111,111,111);
     INSERT INTO table_1 (column_1, column_2, column_2)
     VALUES (,222,222);

Check the inserts by selecting all the rows from table_1.

     SELECT *
     FROM table_1;
     *** Query completed. 2 rows found. 3 columns returned.
     *** Total elapsed time was 1 second.
      column_1  column_2  column_3
     --------- --------- ---------
             2       111       111
             1       222       222