> First of all please excuse my ignorance for what I believe is
a trivial
> Oracle problem but I scanned several sources without much
luck...
>
> I have an application currently running on MS SQL Server that
has several
> tables with an IDENTITY column. The column is a server
maintained, unique
> identifier on the table.
>
> I would like to create the same functionality in Oracle but
am unsure of the
> required syntax. So far I have got as far as creating a
sequence but wasn't
> sure how to script the trigger.
>
> BTW. I only need a unique column on the table for integrity
reasons. I
> want the column to be looked after by the server and don't
actually care
> what the values are.
>
> Could anyone please help (especially if there is an easier
way of doing
> this!!!)
Scripting a trigger isn't the easiest way of doing this, IMHO.
The easiest way is to alter any insert statements to include
SEQUENCE.NEXTVAL as the value for your identity column.
In SQL*Loader, there are options to do this automagically when
you bulk load data.
Hope that helps,
Doug.
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Received on Wed Nov 03 1999 - 12:57:31 CST
