Re: resetting sequence numbers

Yeah?
What if he had dropped the sequence, recreated it, and goddamn application didn't work because he had lost goddamn grants? Good if he knew what were these grants.

Alexandre
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To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 4:20 PM

> ah jeez, you ferrin car drivers, always making thangs
> complicated when all you need is a big hammer cubic
> inch approach.
>
> What next? Setting maxvalue equal to the current
> number and selecting one number? Renaming the sequence
> and creating a synonym to point to another? Asking WHY
> he needs to do this, only to find out that the code is
> flawed since it should not rely on absolute
> serialization from a sequence in the first place, for
> god's sake?
>
> Don't you know that promoting alternate lifestyle DBA
> ideas you are encouraging the inexperienced to
> question authority and addin' to the moral corruption
> of Ameruca?
>
> Stop poisonin the newbies with fancy ideas about
> reverse select and such as that. If recreate was good
> enuf for us, it is darn sure good enuf for them!
>
> <end jingoistic rural reactionary rant>
>
>
> I slay me. I am gonna be at work in one hour, and then
> we can DO STATS!
>
>
>
>
> --- Larry Elkins <elkinsl_at_flash.net> wrote:
> > Jack,
> >
> > But then you have to redo grants, any invalidations.
> > No big deal automating.
> > But if you set the increment to a negative to take
> > you right back down to
> > zero, then set the increment to 1 (or whatever it
> > was), there you go, no
> > dropping the sequence.
> >
> > 10 to 1 odds Jared posts a nice little script that
> > automates this second
> > approach ;-)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Larry G. Elkins
> > elkinsl_at_flash.net
> > 214.954.1781
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: root_at_fatcity.com [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On
> > Behalf Of Jack Silvey
> > > Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 8:03 AM
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > > Subject: Re: resetting sequence numbers
> > >
> > >
> > > drop sequence, recreate sequence, rinse, repeat.
> > >
> > > Jack
> > >
> > >
> > > --- "Malik, Fawzia" <Fawzia.Malik_at_bskyb.com>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Is there a way of resetting sequence numbers
> > back to
> > > > zero???The application
> > > > we have needs to have the sequence numbers
> > reset...
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance
> > > >
> > > > Rgds
> > > >
> > > > Fawzia
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
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