Re: Does Oracle has an automatic counter field data type?

From: Andrea Cannaos <Andrea.Cannaos_at_deagostini.it>
Date: 1998/04/17
Message-ID: <3536F3C7.A5061A3C_at_deagostini.it>#1/1


André Klück wrote:

> Sami adn Andrea,
>
> Beware, the ROWID is NOT a constant trough all times!
> An export and import for instance will ruine your primary key if
> you use ROWID. So ALLWAYS use a SEQUENCE.
>
> sUCCes,
> André

Yes, I know it, so you don't reference ROWID in other OBJECT permanently, but you can use it in SQL-statements executed in procedure or trigger whenever you need an unique key for every row .

Hi, Andrea

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Received on Fri Apr 17 1998 - 00:00:00 CEST

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