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Generate New Guid (uniqueidentifier) in SQL Server
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-- If you want to generate a new Guid (uniqueidentifier) in SQL server the you can simply use the NEWID() function. | |
SELECT NEWID() | |
GO | |
-- This will return a new random uniqueidentifier e.g. | |
E75B92A3-3299-4407-A913-C5CA196B3CAB | |
To select this Guid in in a variable | |
--assign uniqueidentifier in a variable | |
DECLARE @EmployeeID uniqueidentifier | |
SET @EmployeeID = NEWID() | |
You can directly use this with INSERT statement to insert new row in table. | |
-- Inserting data in Employees table. | |
INSERT INTO Employees | |
(EmployeeID, Name, Phone) | |
VALUES | |
(NEWID(), 'John Kris', '99-99999') |
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