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Hi,
Something like this...
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER unique_x_id
BEFORE INSERT ON x
FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
SELECT x.NEXTVAL INTO :new.id FROM dual;
Erika
Ed Zappulla wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how to specifiy a sequence as a default value for a primary
> key id? I want to do an auto number without having to explicitly set the
> value for each insert. ie:
>
> create sequence seq_id;
>
> create table x
> (
> id number default x.nextval not null, ---- bad syntax.
> how to do this?
> name varchar2(255) not null
> );
>
> insert into x (name) values ('xxxx');
Received on Mon Mar 22 1999 - 09:01:19 CST