- Define an Oracle sequence
- Apply sequence to your table.column before INSERT (either in your
application or through pre-insert row trigger)
Fairly easy stuff
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John Shaft <shaft_at_meanmutha.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Does Oracle has a way to define a table such that the primary key gets
> auto-incremented with each new insertion? If not, how do you keep your
> primary keys unique? (With a store value read and incremented in a
> transaction?)
>
> I have a databse devloped orignally for MySQL and want to port it to
> Oracle 8. I wondered about this issue.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> shaft_at_meanmutha.com
> http://www.meanmutha.com
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