Re: How to create unique primary index (autoinc feature)?

From: Jim Lyons <jlyons_at_uts.cc.utexas.edu>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 22:34:56 GMT
Message-ID: <86l8eg$3lu$1@nnrp1.deja.com>

In article <01bf666f$18ef4440$be6a5790_at_poph5500>,   "Sash." <saha.s_at_meryllynch.co.uk> wrote:
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> M. Armaghan Saqib <armaghan_at_yahoo.com> wrote in article
> <86btnj$inp$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>...
> > Oracle does not support any auto-increment column.
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> Of course it does - what are the Sequences used for?

I think what he meant was that there is no autoincrement datatype the way there is in MS/SQL or Access. Indeed there are not. They are quite convenient, too.

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