Re: Newbie, Autoincrement ??

From: Stefan Sandow <stefan.sandow_at_gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 23:58:09 +0200
Message-ID: <newscache$x1twff$5cl$1@outerworld.news.ipf.de>

Texi Rodriguez schrieb in Nachricht <37a74eae_at_news.digitalselect.net>...
>I am very new on ORACLE, How do I have a field that is autoincrement ?? I
am
>using ORACLE 8i (on NT 4.0) as backend and PowerBuilder 6.5 as frontend (on
>Windows 98).
>
>Thank you very much for any help.
>
>Texi Maria Rodriguez Villarreal
>
>

Try using sequences. They are able to create unique values. I think I used to put the call for the sequence in an Insert-Trigger. It should be descripted in the doc's.

Stefan Received on Tue Aug 03 1999 - 16:58:09 CDT