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Re: oracle 9i i=i+1??

From: valigula <valigula_at_gmail.com>
Date: 28 May 2007 03:27:19 -0700
Message-ID: <1180348039.859976.18210@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>


On 28 mayo, 09:29, ryck..._at_gmail.com wrote:
> On 27 mei, 22:06, "Vladimir M. Zakharychev"
>
>
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> <vladimir.zakharyc..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > On May 27, 11:44 pm, valigula <valig..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > On 27 mayo, 20:50, Valentin Minzatu <valentinminz..._at_yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > > On May 27, 2:15 pm, valigula <valig..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > It is any function in Oracle 9i equal o with a similar
> > > > > funtionability than (i=i+1).
> > > > > I want to do a "Insert Into a select" but one fileds is a counter ...
>
> > > > > Thanks in advance ..
> > > > > A.
>
> > > > I am not very clear on the question, but I guess you can use ROWNUM, a
> > > > sequence or implement your own function. Maybe others have more ideas.
>
> > > Thanks for your respond i have a function that already does it. But it
> > > is to resource/time consuming, therefore i am trying to do it on the
> > > fly.
> > > And i can not use the rownum since i will need to start from the
> > > value 53425...this number should be increase by one in every row
> > > insert.
>
> > > A.
>
> > Research SEQUENCEs and BEFORE INSERT FOR EACH ROW triggers. Oracle
> > doesn't support 'identity'/autoincrement columns.
>
> > Hth,
> > Vladimir M. Zakharychev
> > N-Networks, makers of Dynamic PSP(tm)
> > http://www.dynamicpsp.com
>
> insert into tbl2
> select rownum+53424, fielda,fieldb from tbl2

thanks that is what i was looking for.
Regards

A. Received on Mon May 28 2007 - 05:27:19 CDT

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