[oracle] Add a auto increment primary key to existing table in oracle

If you have the column and the sequence, you first need to populate a new key for all the existing rows. Assuming you don't care which key is assigned to which row

UPDATE table_name
   SET new_pk_column = sequence_name.nextval;

Once that's done, you can create the primary key constraint (this assumes that either there is no existing primary key constraint or that you have already dropped the existing primary key constraint)

ALTER TABLE table_name
  ADD CONSTRAINT pk_table_name PRIMARY KEY( new_pk_column )

If you want to generate the key automatically, you'd need to add a trigger

CREATE TRIGGER trigger_name
  BEFORE INSERT ON table_name
  FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
  :new.new_pk_column := sequence_name.nextval;
END;

If you are on an older version of Oracle, the syntax is a bit more cumbersome

CREATE TRIGGER trigger_name
  BEFORE INSERT ON table_name
  FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
  SELECT sequence_name.nextval
    INTO :new.new_pk_column
    FROM dual;
END;