ROWID

Translation spec for ROWID pseudocolumn

Description

For each row in the database, the ROWID pseudocolumn returns the address of the row. (Oracle SQL Language Reference Rowid pseudocolumn)

Snowflake does not have an equivalent for ROWID. The pseudocolumn is transformed to NULL in order to avoid runtime errors.

ROWID

Sample Source Patterns

Oracle

Query

IN -> Oracle_01.sql

CREATE TABLE sample_table
(
    sample_column varchar(10)
);

INSERT INTO sample_table(sample_column) VALUES ('text 1');
INSERT INTO sample_table(sample_column) VALUES ('text 2');

SELECT ROWID FROM sample_table;
SELECT MAX(ROWID) FROM sample_table;

Result Query 1

Result Query 2

Snowflake

Query

OUT -> Oracle_01.sql

CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE sample_table
    (
        sample_column varchar(10)
    )
    COMMENT = '{"origin":"sf_sc","name":"snowconvert","version":{"major":1, "minor":0},{"attributes":{"component":"oracle"}}'
    ;

INSERT INTO sample_table (sample_column)
VALUES ('text 1');

INSERT INTO sample_table (sample_column)
VALUES ('text 2');

SELECT
ROWID FROM
sample_table;

SELECT
MAX(ROWID) FROM
sample_table;

Result Query 1

Result Query 2

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