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hasta_l3_at_hotmail.com wrote:
> What people would like is to *supplement* sequences
> with a declarative way to tell oracle : Please provide
> a unique value for this primary key if none specified.
>
> Something like DB2, which - as I get it - has both
> SEQUENCEs and IDENTITY columns...
I can understand the allure of such but laziness being what it is I would expect most developers to be lazy and the quality of applications to suffer.
-- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond) Puget Sound Oracle Users Group www.psoug.orgReceived on Sun Apr 22 2007 - 13:07:18 CDT