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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Sequences in OPS/RAC
I have always been comfortable with the idea that Sequences continue to
guarantee
uniqueness even in OPS / RAC environments.
However, a recent Builder.Com article by Scott Stephens on the SYS_GUID
function has these lines :
"Sequence generator numbers are guaranteed to be unique only for a single
instance, which is unsuitable for use as a primary key in parallel or
remote environments, where a sequence in each environment might generate
the same number and result in conflicts. An identifier created by SYS_GUID
is guaranteed to be unique for each database."
Huh ?! Do the lines mean that a single sequence can have duplicate values in the two instances of an RAC cluster ?
Hemant K Chitale
Oracle 9i Database Administrator Certified Professional
My personal web site is : http://hkchital.tripod.com
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