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Re: Newbie Question - AutoIncrement

From: Jonathan Lewis <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 21:27:19 -0000
Message-ID: <974147124.6818.0.nnrp-01.9e984b29@news.demon.co.uk>

The quick answer is no.
There is an article on my website (under the FAQ) section describing the typical Oracle method to meet this requirement.

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Jonathan Lewis
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Practical Oracle 8i:  Building Efficient Databases

Publishers:                 Addison Wesley Longman
Book bound date:     8th Dec 2000
See a first review at:
http://www.ixora.com.au/resources/index.htm#practical_8i

Jonathan Willcock wrote in message <8uphbi$1qup$1_at_euler.space.net>...

>Hi All,
>
>I apologise for asking this here, it must be in the docs but mine are all
>german and I've tried all day to find the answer and failed (no doubt
>my german rather than the docs at fault).
>
>Does Oracle allow a field to be an AutoCounter, ie. automatically
>adding 1 to the last value on every insert? If so how?
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>Jonathan
>
>
>
Received on Mon Nov 13 2000 - 15:27:19 CST

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