Oracle - Insert New Row with Auto Incremental ID

To get an auto increment number you need to use a sequence in Oracle. (See here and here).

CREATE SEQUENCE my_seq;

SELECT my_seq.NEXTVAL FROM DUAL; -- to get the next value

-- use in a trigger for your table demo
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER demo_increment 
BEFORE INSERT ON demo
FOR EACH ROW

BEGIN
  SELECT my_seq.NEXTVAL
  INTO   :new.id
  FROM   dual;
END;
/

This is a simple way to do it without any triggers or sequences:

insert into WORKQUEUE (ID, facilitycode, workaction, description)
  values ((select max(ID)+1 from WORKQUEUE), 'J', 'II', 'TESTVALUES')

It worked for me but would not work with an empty table, I guess.

ELXAN@DB1> create table cedvel(id integer,ad varchar2(15));

Table created.

ELXAN@DB1> alter table cedvel add constraint pk_ad primary key(id);

Table altered.

ELXAN@DB1> create sequence test_seq start with 1 increment by 1;

Sequence created.

ELXAN@DB1> create or replace trigger ad_insert
before insert on cedvel
REFERENCING NEW AS NEW OLD AS OLD
for each row
begin
    select test_seq.nextval into :new.id from dual;
end;
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Trigger created.

ELXAN@DB1> insert into cedvel (ad) values ('nese');

1 row created.

There is no built-in auto_increment in Oracle.

You need to use sequences and triggers.

Read here how to do it right. (Step-by-step how-to for "Creating auto-increment columns in Oracle")