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<h1 class="topictitle1">Use ROWID</h1>
<div><p>Using ROWID is another way to have the system assign a unique value
to a column in a table. ROWID is similar to identity columns, but rather than
being an attribute of a numeric column, it is a separate data type.</p>
<div class="section"><p>To create a table similar to the identity column example: </p>
<pre><strong>CREATE</strong> TABLE ORDERS
(ORDERNO <strong>ROWID
GENERATED ALWAYS</strong>,
SHIPPED_TO <strong>VARCHAR</strong> (36) ,
ORDER_DATE <strong>DATE</strong>)</pre>
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