Duplicate a table without the original ROW IDs

I am missing something or it’s a bug…

I duplicated my table and ROW IDs were also to the new table. This is weird, because every ROW ID should be different. Following previous posts about the same issue, I deleted the row and recreated it again - I got the same Row IDs of the original table. I renamed the column, but the create Row Id is still disabled. It is strange that my only option is to export and import a table to get a duplicate with unique row IDs.
What am I missing here?

Am I right? Do you have the same?


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This is correct and expected behaviour, and it’s actually very useful in some scenarios.

RowIDs are only guaranteed to be unique within a single table.
When you duplicate a table with RowIDs, then add a RowID column to the duplicate, you will get the same values.

If you want a new set of unique RowIDs (different from the original table), you can do the following:

  • Export the data to CSV, without the RowID column
  • Delete all data from the table
  • Import the CSV data

This should give you a new set of unique RowID values.

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Thanks Darren!

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