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From: "Bill Bearden" <bbearden@bcl.net>
Subject: Re: Does oracle have an auto increment column
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Having started out on SQL Server, this is one feature (there aren't many) I
do miss in Oracle.  In SQL Server, it is called an INDEX column.  Sequences
in Oracle perform a similar function but they aren't automatic.  Every
programmer and every program inserting a row in a table must know to fill
in the PK column with the NEXTVAL of the sequence.

Bill Bearden

Dennis JR Harding <dennish@wpr.co.za> wrote in article
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