Question

I currently have a stored procedure in which I want to insert new rows into a table.

insert into cars
(id, Make, Model)
values('A new Guid', "Ford", "Mustang")

So the primary key ‘id’ is a Guid. I know how to create a new Guid in C# code but within the stored procedure I’m unsure how to generate the new Guids for the primary key values.

Answer 1

With SQL Server you can use the function NEWID. You’re using C# so I assume that you’re using SQL Server. I’m sure other database system have similar functions.

select NEWID()

If you’re using Oracle then you can use the SYS_GUID() function. Check out the answer to this question: Generate a GUID in Oracle