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

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

No. Autoincrement is a brain-damaged way of creating surrogate keys.

I will grant it may be handy.
But then so are a lot of other bad habits.

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