SQL Server Query Alter ID field to make it incremental in a View

Question

I have created a view from two tables morning shift and night shift employees

My view looks like this:

USE Employees
 GO
 CREATE VIEW EmployeesShift
 SELECT MEID AS ID, MEName AS Name, Status, Address
 FROM MorningEmployees
 UNION ALL
 SELECT NEID AS ID, NEName AS Name, Status, Address
 FROM NightEmployees

The resulting table looks like this

However I want the values of ID field to look like this

Can Anyone help please?

Answer 1

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/row-number-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver15

You can use a windowing function to generate a unique ID for every row on the fly

select * from (
SELECT *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY (SELECT 10000)) AS id FROM dbo.EmployeesShift) a
order by a.id