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RE: strange behaviour of sequence

From: Sony kristanto <Sony_at_polyfincanggih.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:48:47 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0053E064.20030129174847@fatcity.com>


Hi Oraora,

I try the same thing like you did,

SQL> create sequence testseq start with 1;

Sequence created.

SQL> create table testtab (text char(10));

Table created.

SQL> begin
  2 for i in 1 .. 5 loop
  3 insert into testtab values('BREAD'||testseq.nextval);   4 end loop;
  5 commit;
  6 end;
  7 /

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL> select * from test;

TEXT



BREAD1
BREAD2
BREAD3
BREAD4
BREAD5 Just recheck your script, pls.

Rgrds,

Sony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: oraora oraora [SMTP:oraoraora_at_rediffmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 5:34 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: strange behaviour of sequence
>
> Guys,
>
> one of my developers is using sequence to auto-increment the value
> of a column while inserting.
>
> he has created a sequence like this.
>
> SQL > create sequence testseq start with 1;
>
> and then uses a INSERT statement as below in a JSP.
>
> insert into testtab values ('BREAD'||testseq.nextval);
>
> after some inserts .....when he does SELECT from TESTTAB...he
> finds
> the values as :
>
> BREAD1
> BREAD2
> BREAD3
> BREAD4
> BREAD21
> BREAD22
>
> it should increment by 1.but it is not so ?
>
> any hint/clue ????
>
> Regards,
> Jp.
>
>
>
>
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