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Re: Why Oracle don't have AUTO_INCREMENT as in MySQL

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:59:02 -0700
Message-ID: <1176659934.371123@bubbleator.drizzle.com>


Fuzzy wrote:
> On Apr 14, 7:27 am, "howa" <howac..._at_gmail.com> wrote:

>> Seems AUTO_INCREMENT is very handy and natural, anyone agree?

>
> Seems SEQUENCE is very handy and natural. Why don't others implement
> SEQUENCE?
>
> /Hans

The real databases do: Oracle, DB2, Informix.

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Daniel A. Morgan
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Received on Sun Apr 15 2007 - 12:59:02 CDT

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