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Re: Learning Oracle

From: Jon Waterhouse <jonwaterhouse_at_mail.gov.nf.ca>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 12:05:49 -0330
Message-ID: <3c63efe8.0@209.128.1.3>


You create a sequence. Creation of autoincrementing keys is not ANSI standard, so you have sequences in oracle and IDENTITY columns in MS SQL server, etc.

"Michael Segulja" <msegulja_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:3C583296.6060803_at_yahoo.com...
> I'm currently taking classes to get Oracle certified, but without
> getting to far ahead in class, I wanted to ask a quick question to the
> group. I have a MySQL database I created that I would like to use as
> practice as I go through the Oracle class, but I'm confused on the
> AUTO_INCREMENT setting for a row ID field. How do I auto increment a
> number in Oracle8i?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
>
Received on Fri Feb 08 2002 - 09:35:49 CST

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