I have a table with these columns
create table demo (
ID integer not null,
INDEX integer not null,
DATA varchar2(10)
)
Example data:
ID INDEX DATA
1 1 A
1 3 B
2 1 C
2 1 D
2 5 E
I want:
ID INDEX DATA
1 1 A
1 2 B -- 3 -> 2
2 1 C or D -- 1 -> 1 or 2
2 2 D or C -- 1 -> 2 or 1
2 3 E -- 5 -> 3 (closing the gap)
Is there a way to renumber the INDEX per ID using a single SQL update? Note that the order of items should be preserved (i.e. the item "E" should still be after the items "C" and "D" but the order of "C" and "D" doesn't really matter.
The goal is to be able to create a primary key over ID and INDEX.
If that matters, I'm on Oracle 10g.