RE: Exhaused sequence

Does it have to be type number,

If not consider using you function but return only 5 digits and prepend a 'a' to it,

Basically when done with the a you can move to be, this opens up another 26 X 99999=20

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Knight, Jon Sent: 17 February 2005 23:55 PM
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Subject: Exhaused sequence

=20 We have a sequence that is about to reach it's maximum value (999999)=
.
Ordinarly, I would just expand the column and let it keep going, but it populates a business column. They don't care what the value is, as long as
it's unique and no longer than 6 digits. Of course, like many sequence populated columns, it's not consecutive.

=20 I'd like to go back and fill in those "gaps" while the business users=

decide what they want to do. So, I'm thinking: reset the sequence to zero &
create a function that calls nextval until it finds one that's available.
Besides a performance hit, are there any other gotchas I'm missing? Scalability?

=20 Has anyone done something similar before?

Thanks,
Jon Knight

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