Re: sequence generator

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Ravindra Basavaraja wrote:
> Can anyone correct/confirm the following:
>
> A sequence generated number is auto committed. i.e if the transaction that
> generates
> the sequence number fails which eventually gets rolledback the generated
> sequence number
> generated is lost and not available for the next transaction.

This is true.

>
> Is there by anyway prevent lossing of the sequence generated number in case
> of the
> transaction that generated it fails.Any work around?

You will need to create a sequence table i.e. a table you create that you can use to create the arbitrary sequence numbers needed.

Cheers,
GC

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