How to create a primary key

Hello - New to Oracle and was wondering what is a good way to create an auto-incrementing primary key for a table. I have done this so far:
Created a new sequence cst_swq begin with 1 increment by 1.
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER CST_TRIG
BEFORE INSERT
ON COOKIE_SALES
REFERENCING NEW AS NEW
FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
SELECT CST_SEQ.nextval INTO NEW.SALE_ID FROM dual;
This does not really work for me. Help with the code or a better idea to create primary key is much appreciated, thank you.

adi26 wrote:
This does not really work for me. What does that mean?
In which way does this approch not meet your requirements?
BTW: after 200+ posts you should have learned how to use tags...
bye
TPD

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