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Re: Why Oracle don't have AUTO_INCREMENT as in MySQL

From: <sybrandb_at_hccnet.nl>
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:58:30 +0200
Message-ID: <ken1239ab6ffvp2rus58e2fvbo1r13fi69@4ax.com> 





On 14 Apr 2007 06:27:46 -0700, "howa" <howachen_at_gmail.com> wrote:



>Seems AUTO_INCREMENT is very handy and natural, anyone agree?




No. Oracle has something called SEQUENCE which isn't bound to any
column, or table. THIS is very handy.


-- 
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA


Received on Sat Apr 14 2007 - 08:58:30 CDT












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