How to add a sequence column to an existing table with records

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I had created a new table named USERLOG with two fields from a previous VIEW. The table already consist of about 9000 records. The two fields taken from the VIEW, i.e. weblog_views consist of IP (consists of IP address), and WEB_LINK (consists of URL). This is the code I used,

    CREATE TABLE USERLOG
    AS
    SELECT C_IP, WEB_LINK FROM weblog_views;

I want to add another column to this table called the USER_ID, which would consists of a sequence starting with 1 to 9000 records to create a unique id for each existing rows. I need help with this part. I'm using Oracle SQL Developer: ODMiner version 3.0.04. I tried using the AUTO-INCREMENT option,

    ALTER TABLE USERLOG
    ADD USER_ID INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT;

But I get an error with this,

    Error report:
    SQL Error: ORA-01735: invalid ALTER TABLE option
    01735. 00000 -  "invalid ALTER TABLE option"

So, I would really appreciate any help that I can get!

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