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On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:35:17 -0700, "Jay Valdez" <jay_at_dontspamme.com>
wrote:
>Hello,
>
>As in the previous post. I am an SQL Server person doing some
>experimental/proof of concept work in Oracle.
>
>I just want to know what the equivalent of IDENTITY (automatically
>incrementing Long Int) is Oracle is it ROWID?
As the other posters have pointed out, no.
A ROWID is an identifier that Oracle uses the point to the physical (or logical) location of a row. INDEXes use it, and the like.
Brian Received on Fri Sep 28 2001 - 10:20:56 CDT