ijj_at_o2.pl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a table in a data warehouse which has reached its limit for
> autogenerated primary key - a signed 32 bit integer which can be a
> decimal number from -2147483648 to 2147483647 (I use Informatica
> PowerCenter, ETL tool, which creates it like that).
>
> However, many rows are deleted from this table and because of that some
> values of primary key are currently not used, so it looks like:
> 1,2,5,10, 24, 15, ..... and so on.
>
> I have a question how Oracle sequence should look like when I would
> like to generate primary keys in cycle, checking if the next value of
> the PK is already used in the table (no insert/update) or not (insert).
>
> I would be very grateful for answer.
>
> Iza
Mark has answered your question with respect to sequence generated
numbers. But what why not deal with the root cause: A bad design.
Why do you need a surrogate key at all? And if you do ... it seems
one that is non-numeric would make a lot more sense.
--
Daniel A. Morgan
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Received on Tue Dec 20 2005 - 11:25:22 CST
