Re: Selecting Next X Values From Dual

From: Gary Chambers <gc22_at_lucent.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 22:53:20 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004DBDD9.20020927225320@fatcity.com>

Stephane...

Thanks for the reply.

>> SELECT sequence.nextval FROM table WHERE ROWNUM < x
>> It just seems too kludgy, and I didn't think creating a table with
>> dummy data for the count would be a good way to go. Any suggestions?

> Why 'too kludgy' ? If you are inside a PL/SQL package have you though > of a bulk collect into an array of numbers?

It seems kludgy to me to have a table of n-rows of dummy data to grab a specific number of values from a sequence. Is this a common practice?

Gary Chambers

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