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On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, damorgan_at_psoug.org wrote:
> Galen Boyer wrote:
>
>>> The Oracle sequence is a far more intelligent way to solve the >>> problem. >> The Oracle sequence is a far more powerful object that can be >> used to >> mimic autoincrementing keys. But that doesn't make it easier to >> implement for the developers.
Daniel,
You are just being completely disingenuous. As the codebase grows and grows, it would be quite easy for even a very experienced developer to call the wrong sequence and it could take awhile before it might get uncovered. The less you have to manually tie things with code, the better. Thats just plain common-sense.
-- Galen BoyerReceived on Mon Apr 23 2007 - 01:24:02 CDT