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I have just imported some data from an excel document into a sql database.

Currently there is no primary key column, so I have added a new column of type uniqueidentifier.

I have 3000 rows. How can I generate the guid values for this column?
 
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Aye - just found that myself!!!

Thanks for your time though.
 
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