Create AutoIncrement column/field in Apache Derby

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While creating a table a particular column / field can be made autoincrement as :

CREATE TABLE students
(
id INTEGER NOT NULL GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY (START WITH 1, INCREMENT BY 1),
name VARCHAR(24) NOT NULL,
address VARCHAR(1024),
CONSTRAINT primary_key PRIMARY KEY (id)
) ;

The value of an autoincrement column increments automatically with every insert and doesnt need to be specified in the insert command. It is 1 + the value of the same field in the previous row.

Now data can be inserted as :

insert into students(name , address) values('Sanjay' , 'New Delhi');

Note that the value for the id field (which is an autoincrement field) is not specified. It fills automatically by taking the value of the previous row and adding 1 to it.

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