RE: sequence pool

From: Brian MacLean <bmaclean_at_vcommerce.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 08:29:19 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.003B338A.20011024083522@fatcity.com>

Why not have the sequence increment by 20 (or something to your liking) and then in the application use the number from the sequence and the 19 numbers the sequence will skip.

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Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 9:00 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Hi,

is there a smart way to generate IDs in chunks?

getting an ID with nextval is perfectly ok most of the time, but sometimes the application would need to generate a pool of IDs and keep them for later use

as I can't manipulate the currval of the sequence, I wander what the best solution would be

thanx,

Marin

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